From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 12:59:28 -0800 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 2/6] treewide: remove using list iterator after loop body as a ptr In-Reply-To: References: <7D0C2A5D-500E-4F38-AD0C-A76E132A390E@kernel.org> <73fa82a20910c06784be2352a655acc59e9942ea.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <7dc860874d434d2288f36730d8ea3312@AcuMS.aculab.com> <0ced2b155b984882b39e895f0211037c@AcuMS.aculab.com> <78ccb184-405e-da93-1e02-078f90d2b9bc@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <202203021158.DB5204A0@keescook> Message-ID: <202203021256.69D7C4BCA6@keescook> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 12:18:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 12:07 PM Kees Cook wrote: > > > > I've long wanted to change kfree() to explicitly set pointers to NULL on > > free. https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/87 > > We've had this discussion with the gcc people in the past, and gcc > actually has some support for it, but it's sadly tied to the actual > function name (ie gcc has some special-casing for "free()") > > See > > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94527 > > for some of that discussion. > > Oh, and I see some patch actually got merged since I looked there last > so that you can mark "deallocator" functions, but I think it's only > for the context matching, not for actually killing accesses to the > pointer afterwards. Ah! I missed that getting added in GCC 11. But yes, there it is: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Function-Attributes.html#index-malloc-function-attribute Hah, now we may need to split __malloc from __alloc_size. ;) I'd still like the NULL assignment behavior, though, since some things can easily avoid static analysis. -- Kees Cook