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| author | Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com> | 2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> | 2026-08-29 07:32:26 +0100 |
| commit | 78004e9a87f240df03e2f73120d291763c32e0a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 137c22dd795222931b9d2bf2501d37cd766741aa /Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | |
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openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscallgrafted
sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user
pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written
assembly.
l.lwz r29,0(r4)
l.lwz r27,0(r5)
l.sw 0(r4),r27
l.sw 0(r5),r29
The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory
accesses also have no exception table entries.
A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall
reads from and writes to it directly.
This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It
overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code
execution in kernel context.
Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups
for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user
addresses return -EFAULT.
[shorne@gmail.com: fix comment style]
Fixes: 9d02a4283e9c ("OpenRISC: Boot code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a68b1bea5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +===================================== +The Linux kernel user-space API guide +===================================== + +.. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ + +While much of the kernel's user-space API is documented elsewhere +(particularly in the man-pages_ project), some user-space information can +also be found in the kernel tree itself. This manual is intended to be the +place where this information is gathered. + + +System calls +============ + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + unshare + futex2 + ebpf/index + ioctl/index + mseal + rseq + +Security-related interfaces +=========================== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + no_new_privs + seccomp_filter + landlock + lsm + mfd_noexec + spec_ctrl + tee + check_exec + +Devices and I/O +=============== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + accelerators/ocxl + dma-buf-heaps + dma-buf-alloc-exchange + fwctl/index + gpio/index + iommufd + media/index + dcdbas + vduse + isapnp + +Everything else +=============== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + ELF + liveupdate + netlink/index + sysfs-platform_profile + vduse + futex2 + perf_ring_buffer + ntsync |
