From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arjan@infradead.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] Add explicit bound checks in net/socket.c
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:57:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090928.125757.151682793.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090926212302.0ce64a5c@infradead.org>
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:23:02 +0200
> The sys_socketcall() function has a very clever system for the copy
> size of its arguments. Unfortunately, gcc cannot deal with this in
> terms of proving that the copy_from_user() is then always in bounds.
> This is the last (well 9th of this series, but last in the kernel) such
> case around.
>
> With this patch, we can turn on code to make having the boundary provably
> right for the whole kernel, and detect introduction of new security
> accidents of this type early on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-28 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090926204951.424e567e@infradead.org>
2009-09-26 18:54 ` [PATCH 9/9] Add explicit bound checks in net/socket.c Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-26 19:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-09-26 19:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-26 19:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-26 19:35 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-09-28 19:57 ` David Miller [this message]
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