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From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>, Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
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	llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/5] slab: check for ZERO_SIZE_PTR by exact match
Date: Thu,  3 Sep 2026 22:37:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903203720.63689-3-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903203720.63689-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>

ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR() returns true for every value less than or equal to
ZERO_SIZE_PTR. With the sentinel raised to ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, up
to 128 on some architectures, the helper matches additional values
that are neither NULL nor the sentinel.

Compare explicitly against NULL and ZERO_SIZE_PTR. Store the argument
in an unsigned long temporary to support both pointer and integer
address arguments while evaluating it only once.

This also changes check_bogus_address() in hardened usercopy: nonzero
addresses below ZERO_SIZE_PTR no longer cause its null-address abort.
The rejected window was incidental to the sentinel value: address 17
already passed the old check, including in s390's mapped lowcore, and a
principled first-page bound would be a separate usercopy change.

Apart from hardened usercopy, direct in-tree users apply the helper
to allocation results or explicit sentinel values.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
 include/linux/slab.h | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 563dadc16d82..458c4229b1d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -273,8 +273,12 @@ enum _slab_flag_bits {
 #define ZERO_SIZE_PTR ((void *)(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN > 16 ? \
 				ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN : 16))
 
-#define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x) ((unsigned long)(x) <= \
-				(unsigned long)ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
+#define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(x)						\
+({									\
+	unsigned long __zon_ptr = (unsigned long)(x);			\
+	__zon_ptr == 0 ||						\
+	__zon_ptr == (unsigned long)ZERO_SIZE_PTR;			\
+})
 
 #include <linux/kasan.h>
 
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-03 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-03 20:37 [PATCH v3 0/5] slab: ZERO_SIZE_PTR alignment and ERR_PTR hardening Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-03 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] slab: align ZERO_SIZE_PTR to ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-03 20:37 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-09-03 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] slab: handle ERR_PTR values in kfree and hardened usercopy Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-04  9:01   ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-09-03 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] slab: test zero-size allocations in slub_kunit Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-03 20:37 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] slab: test ERR_PTR handling in kfree and hardened usercopy Karl Mehltretter
2026-09-04 11:25 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] slab: ZERO_SIZE_PTR alignment and ERR_PTR hardening Harry Yoo

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