From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] [RFC] mm: annotate memory allocation functions with their sizes
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:07:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo89rieh.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202002251035.AD29F84@keescook>
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:38:22PM -0500, Daniel Micay wrote:
>> There are some uses of ksize in the kernel making use of the real
>> usable size of memory allocations rather than only the requested
>> amount. It's incorrect when mixed with alloc_size markers, since if a
>> number like 14 is passed that's used as the upper bound, rather than a
>> rounded size like 16 returned by ksize. It's unlikely to trigger any
>> issues with only CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, but it becomes more likely
>> with -fsanitize=object-size or other library-based usage of
>> __builtin_object_size.
>
> I think the solution here is to use a macro that does the per-bucket
> rounding and applies them to the attributes. Keep the bucket size lists
> in sync will likely need some BUILD_BUG_ON()s or similar.
I can have a go at this but with various other work projects it has
unfortunately slipped way down the to-do list. So I've very happy for
anyone else to take this and run with it.
Regards,
Daniel
>
> --
> Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-26 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-20 7:43 [PATCH 0/5] Annotate allocation functions with alloc_size attribute Daniel Axtens
2020-01-20 7:43 ` [PATCH 1/5] altera-stapl: altera_get_note: prevent write beyond end of 'key' Daniel Axtens
2020-01-20 7:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] [RFC] kasan: kasan_test: hide allocation sizes from the compiler Daniel Axtens
2020-01-20 7:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] [RFC] staging: rts5208: make len a u16 in rtsx_write_cfg_seq Daniel Axtens
2020-01-20 7:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] [VERY RFC] mm: kmalloc(_node): return NULL immediately for SIZE_MAX Daniel Axtens
2020-01-20 11:14 ` Michal Hocko
2020-01-20 22:51 ` Daniel Axtens
2020-01-20 7:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] [RFC] mm: annotate memory allocation functions with their sizes Daniel Axtens
2020-02-07 20:38 ` Daniel Micay
2020-02-25 18:35 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-26 6:07 ` Daniel Axtens [this message]
2020-02-26 21:56 ` Kees Cook
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