[PATCH 7/9] Simplify bound checks in capabilities for copy_from_user

Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-26T18:54:31Z

Subject: [PATCH 7/9] Simplify bound checks in capabilities for copy_from_user
CC: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

The capabilities syscall has a copy_from_user() call where gcc currently
cannot prove to itself that the copy is always within bounds.

This patch adds a very explicity bound check to prove to gcc that
this copy_from_user cannot overflow its destination buffer.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
index 4e17041..204f11f 100644
--- a/kernel/capability.c
+++ b/kernel/capability.c
@@ -238,7 +241,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(capget, cap_user_header_t, header, cap_user_data_t, dataptr)
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(capset, cap_user_header_t, header, const cap_user_data_t, data)
{
struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S];
- unsigned i, tocopy;
+ unsigned i, tocopy, copybytes;
kernel_cap_t inheritable, permitted, effective;
struct cred *new;
int ret;
@@ -255,8 +258,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(capset, cap_user_header_t, header, const cap_user_data_t, data)
if (pid != 0 && pid != task_pid_vnr(current))
return -EPERM;

- if (copy_from_user(&kdata, data,
- tocopy * sizeof(struct __user_cap_data_struct)))
+ copybytes = tocopy * sizeof(struct __user_cap_data_struct);
+ if (copybytes > _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S)
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&kdata, data, copybytes))
return -EFAULT;

for (i = 0; i < tocopy; i++) {