From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
To: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 0/4] static analysis of copy_to_user()
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:05:10 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190120190510.GC3987@cisco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181221224717.zixqkz26xujllmq4@ltop.local>
Hey Luc,
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 11:47:19PM +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:59:27PM -0700, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A while ago I talked with various people about whether some static
> > analsys of copy_to_user() could be productive in finding infoleaks.
> > Unfortunately, due to the various issues outlined in the patch notes, it
> > doesn't seem like it is. Perhaps these checks are useful to put in just
> > to future proof ourselves against these sorts of issues, though.
> >
> > Anyway, here's the code. Thoughts welcome!
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm taking the first patch directly but I won't be able to look
> closer at the other patches until next week.
Any chance you can take a peek at these?
Cheers,
Tycho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-20 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-20 19:59 [RFC v1 0/4] static analysis of copy_to_user() Tycho Andersen
2018-12-20 19:59 ` [RFC v1 1/4] expression.h: update comment to include other cast types Tycho Andersen
2018-12-20 19:59 ` [RFC v1 2/4] move name-based analysis before linearization Tycho Andersen
2018-12-20 19:59 ` [RFC v1 3/4] add a check for copy_to_user() address spaces Tycho Andersen
2018-12-20 19:59 ` [RFC v1 4/4] check copy_to_user() sizes Tycho Andersen
2018-12-21 22:47 ` [RFC v1 0/4] static analysis of copy_to_user() Luc Van Oostenryck
2019-01-20 19:05 ` Tycho Andersen [this message]
2019-01-21 21:41 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2019-01-24 3:15 ` Tycho Andersen
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