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From: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com (Heiko Carstens)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: uaccess: Implement strict user copy checks
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:18:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100914141818.GD2201@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009141510.43446.arnd@arndb.de>

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:10:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2010, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:07:52PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Changing the buf_size variable from an int to a size_t makes the warning
> > > go away. Perhaps this is because gcc can't reliably eliminate the else
> > > case when the lower bound isn't 0? Overflow? I'm not really sure. Does
> > > the kernel/kprobes.c part of this patch work for you?
> > 
> > Yes, the warning goes away on s390 as well.
> 
> Ok, great!
> 
> In that case, I think we should just apply this patch to fix all these
> warnings for good. There are probably some more in an x86_64 allyesconfig
> build, but this should make s390 build cleanly again.

Nah, that would be too easy.
allyesconfig with gcc 4.5.2 and both patches applied:

In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from net/core/pktgen.c:123:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:881:20:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1144:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1251:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1273:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1297:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1320:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1343:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1364:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1385:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1406:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1433:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1469:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from net/core/pktgen.c:123:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_thread_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1793:20:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_thread_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1824:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from drivers/net/tun.c:42:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from '__tun_chr_ioctl' at drivers/net/tun.c:1200:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from include/linux/sysdev.h:25,
                 from include/linux/cpu.h:22,
                 from kernel/perf_event.c:14:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'perf_copy_attr' at kernel/perf_event.c:5006:22,
    inlined from 'SYSC_perf_event_open' at kernel/perf_event.c:5110:6,
    inlined from 'SyS_perf_event_open' at kernel/perf_event.c:5095:1:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from drivers/scsi/sg.c:31:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'sg_proc_write_adio' at drivers/scsi/sg.c:2373:20:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from include/linux/textsearch.h:7,
                 from include/linux/skbuff.h:27,
                 from include/linux/icmpv6.h:82,
                 from net/compat.c:19:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'compat_sys_socketcall' at net/compat.c:783:20:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: uaccess: Implement strict user copy checks
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:18:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100914141818.GD2201@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009141510.43446.arnd@arndb.de>

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:10:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2010, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:07:52PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > Changing the buf_size variable from an int to a size_t makes the warning
> > > go away. Perhaps this is because gcc can't reliably eliminate the else
> > > case when the lower bound isn't 0? Overflow? I'm not really sure. Does
> > > the kernel/kprobes.c part of this patch work for you?
> > 
> > Yes, the warning goes away on s390 as well.
> 
> Ok, great!
> 
> In that case, I think we should just apply this patch to fix all these
> warnings for good. There are probably some more in an x86_64 allyesconfig
> build, but this should make s390 build cleanly again.

Nah, that would be too easy.
allyesconfig with gcc 4.5.2 and both patches applied:

In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from net/core/pktgen.c:123:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:881:20:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1144:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1251:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1273:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1297:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1320:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1343:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1364:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1385:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1406:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1433:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_if_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1469:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from net/core/pktgen.c:123:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_thread_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1793:20:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'pktgen_thread_write' at net/core/pktgen.c:1824:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from drivers/net/tun.c:42:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from '__tun_chr_ioctl' at drivers/net/tun.c:1200:21:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from include/linux/sysdev.h:25,
                 from include/linux/cpu.h:22,
                 from kernel/perf_event.c:14:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'perf_copy_attr' at kernel/perf_event.c:5006:22,
    inlined from 'SYSC_perf_event_open' at kernel/perf_event.c:5110:6,
    inlined from 'SyS_perf_event_open' at kernel/perf_event.c:5095:1:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from drivers/scsi/sg.c:31:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'sg_proc_write_adio' at drivers/scsi/sg.c:2373:20:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h:13:0,
                 from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h:133,
                 from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from include/linux/textsearch.h:7,
                 from include/linux/skbuff.h:27,
                 from include/linux/icmpv6.h:82,
                 from net/compat.c:19:
In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'compat_sys_socketcall' at net/compat.c:783:20:
/home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/uaccess.h:297:26: warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04  3:02 [PATCH] ARM: uaccess: Implement strict user copy checks Stephen Boyd
2010-08-04  3:02 ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-10 22:46 ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-10 22:46   ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-10 22:55   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-08-10 22:55     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-08-11  0:27     ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-11  0:27       ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-18  1:29       ` [PATCH v2] " Stephen Boyd
2010-08-18  1:29         ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-18 12:28         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-18 12:28           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-18 19:48           ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-18 19:48             ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-19 11:09             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-19 11:09               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-24 15:06               ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-24 15:06                 ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-24 15:26                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-24 15:26                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-24 15:47                   ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-24 15:47                     ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-25 12:14                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-25 12:14                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-25 12:54                       ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-25 12:54                         ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-25 13:55                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-25 13:55                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-25 14:40                           ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-25 14:40                             ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-28  1:35                             ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-28  1:35                               ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-28  7:43                               ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-28  7:43                                 ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-28  9:56                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-28  9:56                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-04  4:49                                 ` Stephen Boyd
2010-09-04  4:49                                   ` Stephen Boyd
2010-09-14  3:07                                   ` Stephen Boyd
2010-09-14  3:07                                     ` Stephen Boyd
2010-09-14  8:25                                     ` Heiko Carstens
2010-09-14  8:25                                       ` Heiko Carstens
2010-09-14 13:10                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-14 13:10                                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-14 14:18                                         ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2010-09-14 14:18                                           ` Heiko Carstens
2010-08-19  2:28           ` [PATCHv2 2/1] Consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS Stephen Boyd
2010-08-19  2:28             ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-19  4:38             ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-08-19  4:38               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-08-19  4:47             ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-08-19  4:47               ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-08-19 11:04               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-19 11:04                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-11  3:04 ` [PATCH] ARM: uaccess: Implement strict user copy checks Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-11  3:04   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-11 18:46   ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-11 18:46     ` Stephen Boyd
2010-08-12 15:00     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-12 15:00       ` Arnd Bergmann

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