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Kernel: Make copy_to/from_user safe and remove unnecessary checks

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Since the CPU already does almost all necessary validation steps
for us, we don't really need to attempt to do this. Doing it
ourselves doesn't really work very reliably, because we'd have to
account for other processors modifying virtual memory, and we'd
have to account for e.g. pages not being able to be allocated
due to insufficient resources.

So change the copy_to/from_user (and associated helper functions)
to use the new safe_memcpy, which will return whether it succeeded
or not. The only manual validation step needed (which the CPU
can't perform for us) is making sure the pointers provided by user
mode aren't pointing to kernel mappings.

To make it easier to read/write from/to either kernel or user mode
data add the UserOrKernelBuffer helper class, which will internally
either use copy_from/to_user or directly memcpy, or pass the data
through directly using a temporary buffer on the stack.

Last but not least we need to keep syscall params trivial as we
need to copy them from/to user mode using copy_from/to_user.
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Tom 2020-09-11 21:11:07 -06:00 • committed by Andreas Kling
parent 7d1b8417bd
commit c8d9f1b9c9
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Kernel/FileSystem/Inode.h
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@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ public:
KResultOr<KBuffer> read_entire(FileDescription* = nullptr) const;
virtual ssize_t read_bytes(off_t, ssize_t, u8* buffer, FileDescription*) const = 0;
virtual ssize_t read_bytes(off_t, ssize_t, UserOrKernelBuffer& buffer, FileDescription*) const = 0;
virtual KResult traverse_as_directory(Function<bool(const FS::DirectoryEntryView&)>) const = 0;
virtual RefPtr<Inode> lookup(StringView name) = 0;
virtual ssize_t write_bytes(off_t, ssize_t, const u8* data, FileDescription*) = 0;
virtual ssize_t write_bytes(off_t, ssize_t, const UserOrKernelBuffer& data, FileDescription*) = 0;
virtual KResultOr<NonnullRefPtr<Inode>> create_child(const String& name, mode_t, dev_t, uid_t, gid_t) = 0;
virtual KResult add_child(Inode&, const StringView& name, mode_t) = 0;
virtual KResult remove_child(const StringView& name) = 0;
@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ public:
protected:
Inode(FS& fs, unsigned index);
void set_metadata_dirty(bool);
void inode_contents_changed(off_t, ssize_t, const u8*);
void inode_contents_changed(off_t, ssize_t, const UserOrKernelBuffer&);
void inode_size_changed(size_t old_size, size_t new_size);
KResult prepare_to_write_data();