make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()'
commit 594cc251fdd0d231d342d88b2fdff4bc42fb0690 upstream. Originally, the rule used to be that you'd have to do access_ok() separately, and then user_access_begin() before actually doing the direct (optimized) user access. But experience has shown that people then decide not to do access_ok() at all, and instead rely on it being implied by other operations or similar. Which makes it very hard to verify that the access has actually been range-checked. If you use the unsafe direct user accesses, hardware features (either SMAP - Supervisor Mode Access Protection - on x86, or PAN - Privileged Access Never - on ARM) do force you to use user_access_begin(). But nothing really forces the range check. By putting the range check into user_access_begin(), we actually force people to do the right thing (tm), and the range check vill be visible near the actual accesses. We have way too long a history of people trying to avoid them. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [ Shile: fix following conflicts by adding a dummy arguments ] Conflicts: kernel/compat.c kernel/exit.c Signed-off-by: NShile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
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