From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2013-03-01-15-50 uploaded (strict user copy)
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:22:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51318C9B.8000403@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51317D2B.6060601@codeaurora.org>
On 03/01/13 20:16, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 03/01/13 19:42, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> On 03/01/13 19:00, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 03/01/13 15:51, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
>>>> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2013-03-01-15-50 has been uploaded to
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/
>>>>
>>> on i386:
>>>
>>> ERROR: "copy_from_user_overflow" [fs/binfmt_misc.ko] undefined!
>>>
>>> which I don't understand.
>>> lib/usercopy.o is built and building binfmt_misc.c says:
>>>
>>> CC [M] fs/binfmt_misc.o
>>> In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:537:0,
>>> from include/linux/uaccess.h:5,
>>> from include/linux/highmem.h:8,
>>> from include/linux/pagemap.h:10,
>>> from fs/binfmt_misc.c:27:
>>> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h: In function 'parse_command.part.1':
>>> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:211:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct [enabled by default]
>> Hm.. That's because it's part of lib and not obj, right?
Yes, this fixes the build error.
>> diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
>> index 59fabd0..4c55104 100644
>> --- a/lib/Makefile
>> +++ b/lib/Makefile
>> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ lib-y := ctype.o string.o vsprintf.o cmdline.o \
>> is_single_threaded.o plist.o decompress.o kobject_uevent.o \
>> earlycpio.o percpu-refcount.o
>>
>> -lib-$(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS) += usercopy.o
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS) += usercopy.o
>> lib-$(CONFIG_MMU) += ioremap.o
>> lib-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpumask.o
>>
>>
>
> I'm a little confused though because it is lib-y on x86 before my patch.
binfmt_misc is built as a loadable module in my config.
It must be the only user of copy_from_user_overflow() in this config.
I guess that it would also fail prior to your patch, but I haven't
tested it. Anyway, your patch above is correct and needed.
thanks,
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-02 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-01 23:51 mmotm 2013-03-01-15-50 uploaded akpm
2013-03-02 3:00 ` mmotm 2013-03-01-15-50 uploaded (strict user copy) Randy Dunlap
2013-03-02 3:42 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-02 4:16 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-02 5:22 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2013-03-14 17:48 ` Stephen Boyd
2013-03-14 21:16 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-03-02 3:05 ` mmotm 2013-03-01-15-50 uploaded (early_printk) Randy Dunlap
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