[kernel-hardening] [PATCH 01/38] usercopy: Remove pointer from overflow report

Kees Cook
2018-01-11T02:02:33Z

Using %p was already mostly useless in the usercopy overflow reports,
so this removes it entirely to avoid confusion now that %p-hashing
is enabled.

Fixes: ad67b74d2469d9b8 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
mm/usercopy.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
index a9852b24715d..5df1e68d4585 100644
--- a/mm/usercopy.c
+++ b/mm/usercopy.c
@@ -58,12 +58,11 @@ static noinline int check_stack_object(const void *obj, unsigned long len)
return GOOD_STACK;
}

-static void report_usercopy(const void *ptr, unsigned long len,
- bool to_user, const char *type)
+static void report_usercopy(unsigned long len, bool to_user, const char *type)
{
- pr_emerg("kernel memory %s attempt detected %s %p (%s) (%lu bytes)\n",
+ pr_emerg("kernel memory %s attempt detected %s '%s' (%lu bytes)\n",
to_user ? "exposure" : "overwrite",
- to_user ? "from" : "to", ptr, type ? : "unknown", len);
+ to_user ? "from" : "to", type ? : "unknown", len);
/*
* For greater effect, it would be nice to do do_group_exit(),
* but BUG() actually hooks all the lock-breaking and per-arch
@@ -261,6 +260,6 @@ void __check_object_size(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, bool to_user)
return;

report:
- report_usercopy(ptr, n, to_user, err);
+ report_usercopy(n, to_user, err);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__check_object_size);
--
2.7.4