kernel: user memory is reached only through a checked copy

A new user-memory module owns every kernel touch of a user buffer:
copyFromUser, the new copyToUser, and the resolve behind both. The walk
accumulates the U/S and writable bits down all four levels with the MMU's
own AND rule — folding a 2 MiB leaf in before it resolves and refusing a
1 GiB leaf outright — so a copy honours what ring 3 itself would be
allowed, closing the presence-only trust model the IPC layer carried since
bring-up. It then confirms the frame is physmap-backed, because that is how
the copy reaches it: an mmio_map'd BAR passes the permission walk and would
otherwise fault ring 0 on an alias the physmap never mapped, on the IPC path
as much as the new one.

The nine stragglers that dereferenced user pointers raw now route through
it, so a bad pointer returns -EFAULT where it used to fault the kernel.
The write direction restructures its callees around kernel bounce buffers:
scheduler and devices-broker enumerate from a slot cursor (a task exiting
between chunks can neither duplicate nor lose an entry), klog_read drains
the ring in chunks, and fs_node stages headers and names contiguously.
fs_resolve copies out before installing the endpoint handle, so a faulting
copy cannot strand a capability; its out-capacity bound no longer adds an
unbounded ring-3 length to the base, which wrapped and trapped the kernel's
own overflow check. debug_write reads the caller's message once.

Suite 107/107 (new user-memory case: seven bad pointers refused, each
paired with a sound call that must still succeed).
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Daniel Samson
2026-07-31 20:57:49 +01:00
parent c4f16a5448
commit 8d4a7cf240
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@@ -257,6 +257,16 @@ pub fn translate(root: u64, virtual: u64) ?u64 {
return paging.translateIn(root, virtual);
}
/// `translate` for an address the kernel is about to touch *on a process's
/// behalf*: the walk additionally demands the permission ring 3 would need — the
/// leaf user-accessible (U/S set at every level), and writable (R/W at every
/// level) when `for_write`. Null means "the process itself could not do this",
/// which the checked copy layer (system/kernel/user-memory.zig) turns into
/// -EFAULT instead of a kernel dereference.
pub fn translateUser(root: u64, virtual: u64, for_write: bool) ?u64 {
return paging.translateUserIn(root, virtual, for_write);
}
/// Map a page accessible from ring 3 (U/S bit at every level). The caller keeps
/// W^X: code read-only + executable, data writable + no-execute.
pub fn mapUserPage(virtual: u64, physical: u64, writable: bool, executable: bool) void {