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* [PATCH v2] string: use __builtin_memcpy() in strlcpy/strlcat
@ 2023-05-30  8:39 Alexander Potapenko
  2023-05-30  8:40 ` Alexander Potapenko
  2023-05-30 23:10 ` Kees Cook
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Potapenko @ 2023-05-30  8:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: glider, andy, akpm
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm, elver, dvyukov, kasan-dev, ndesaulniers,
	nathan, keescook

lib/string.c is built with -ffreestanding, which prevents the compiler
from replacing certain functions with calls to their library versions.

On the other hand, this also prevents Clang and GCC from instrumenting
calls to memcpy() when building with KASAN, KCSAN or KMSAN:
 - KASAN normally replaces memcpy() with __asan_memcpy() with the
   additional cc-param,asan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1;
 - KCSAN and KMSAN replace memcpy() with __tsan_memcpy() and
   __msan_memcpy() by default.

To let the tools catch memory accesses from strlcpy/strlcat, replace
the calls to memcpy() with __builtin_memcpy(), which KASAN, KCSAN and
KMSAN are able to replace even in -ffreestanding mode.

This preserves the behavior in normal builds (__builtin_memcpy() ends up
being replaced with memcpy()), and does not introduce new instrumentation
in unwanted places, as strlcpy/strlcat are already instrumented.

Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230224085942.1791837-1-elver@google.com/
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 lib/string.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 3d55ef8901068..be26623953d2e 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
 
 	if (size) {
 		size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret;
-		memcpy(dest, src, len);
+		__builtin_memcpy(dest, src, len);
 		dest[len] = '\0';
 	}
 	return ret;
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ size_t strlcat(char *dest, const char *src, size_t count)
 	count -= dsize;
 	if (len >= count)
 		len = count-1;
-	memcpy(dest, src, len);
+	__builtin_memcpy(dest, src, len);
 	dest[len] = 0;
 	return res;
 }
-- 
2.41.0.rc0.172.g3f132b7071-goog



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