mm: Avoid creating virtual address aliases in brk()/mmap()/mremap()
Currently the arm64 kernel ignores the top address byte passed to brk(), mmap() and mremap(). When the user is not aware of the 56-bit address limit or relies on the kernel to return an error, untagging such pointers has the potential to create address aliases in user-space. Passing a tagged address to munmap(), madvise() is permitted since the tagged pointer is expected to be inside an existing mapping. The current behaviour breaks the existing glibc malloc() implementation which relies on brk() with an address beyond 56-bit to be rejected by the kernel. Remove untagging in the above functions by partially reverting commit ce18d171 ("mm: untag user pointers in mmap/munmap/mremap/brk"). In addition, update the arm64 tagged-address-abi.rst document accordingly. Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1797052 Fixes: ce18d171 ("mm: untag user pointers in mmap/munmap/mremap/brk") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.4.x- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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