From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: mmotm 2013-03-01-15-50 uploaded (strict user copy) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:16:36 -0700 Message-ID: <51423E34.1040206@infradead.org> References: <20130301235135.E9F105A41B2@corp2gmr1-2.hot.corp.google.com> <51316B64.90102@infradead.org> <5131753F.3070302@codeaurora.org> <51420D62.7030701@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <51420D62.7030701@codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Boyd Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-next.vger.kernel.org On 03/14/13 10:48, Stephen Boyd wrote: > On 03/01/13 19:42, Stephen Boyd wrote: >> On 03/01/13 19:00, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> 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? >> >> 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 >> >> > > Andrew, can you squash this into "Kconfig: consolidate > CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS"? > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Thanks. -- ~Randy