From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 12:36:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64025a3a.170a0220.dba96.3fcf@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89e3ecb6-0e1a-3d86-cb05-cbb034c68dc4@intel.com>
On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 04:19:51PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 14:49:50 -0800
>
> > Under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, memcpy() will check the size of destination
> > and source buffers. Defining kernel_headers_data as "char" would trip
> > this check. Since these addresses are treated as byte arrays, define
> > them as arrays (as done everywhere else).
>
> Yet another array-as-one-char, I wonder how many are still here...
Yeah, good point. They do tend to stand out; we could find them:
$ git grep 'extern char [^\*\[\( ]*;'
arch/alpha/boot/bootp.c:extern char _end;
arch/alpha/boot/bootpz.c:extern char _end;
arch/alpha/boot/main.c: extern char _end;
arch/arm/mach-rockchip/core.h:extern char rockchip_secondary_trampoline;
arch/arm/mach-rockchip/core.h:extern char rockchip_secondary_trampoline_end;
arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.h:extern char zynq_secondary_trampoline;
arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.h:extern char zynq_secondary_trampoline_jump;
arch/arm/mach-zynq/common.h:extern char zynq_secondary_trampoline_end;
arch/hexagon/include/uapi/asm/setup.h:extern char external_cmdline_buffer;
arch/ia64/include/asm/smp.h:extern char no_int_routing;
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c: extern char ia64_ret_from_clone;
arch/mips/dec/prom/memory.c: extern char genexcept_early;
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c: extern char except_vec3_generic;
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c: extern char except_vec4;
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c: extern char except_vec3_r4000;
arch/mips/mm/c-octeon.c: extern char except_vec2_octeon;
arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c:extern char output_len;
arch/parisc/boot/compressed/misc.c:extern char _startcode_end;
arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h:extern char __secondary_hold;
arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h:extern char sie_exit;
arch/sh/boards/mach-ap325rxa/setup.c:extern char ap325rxa_sdram_enter_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-ap325rxa/setup.c:extern char ap325rxa_sdram_enter_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-ap325rxa/setup.c:extern char ap325rxa_sdram_leave_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-ap325rxa/setup.c:extern char ap325rxa_sdram_leave_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-ecovec24/setup.c:extern char ecovec24_sdram_enter_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-ecovec24/setup.c:extern char ecovec24_sdram_enter_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-ecovec24/setup.c:extern char ecovec24_sdram_leave_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-ecovec24/setup.c:extern char ecovec24_sdram_leave_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-kfr2r09/setup.c:extern char kfr2r09_sdram_enter_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-kfr2r09/setup.c:extern char kfr2r09_sdram_enter_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-kfr2r09/setup.c:extern char kfr2r09_sdram_leave_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-kfr2r09/setup.c:extern char kfr2r09_sdram_leave_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-migor/setup.c:extern char migor_sdram_enter_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-migor/setup.c:extern char migor_sdram_enter_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-migor/setup.c:extern char migor_sdram_leave_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-migor/setup.c:extern char migor_sdram_leave_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7724/setup.c:extern char ms7724se_sdram_enter_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7724/setup.c:extern char ms7724se_sdram_enter_end;
arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7724/setup.c:extern char ms7724se_sdram_leave_start;
arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7724/setup.c:extern char ms7724se_sdram_leave_end;
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/shmobile/pm.c:extern char sh_mobile_sleep_enter_start;
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/shmobile/pm.c:extern char sh_mobile_sleep_enter_end;
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/shmobile/pm.c:extern char sh_mobile_sleep_resume_start;
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/shmobile/pm.c:extern char sh_mobile_sleep_resume_end;
arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_64.c: extern char __vsyscall_page;
arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h:extern char __vvar_page;
kernel/configs.c:extern char kernel_config_data;
kernel/configs.c:extern char kernel_config_data_end;
net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c:extern char bpfilter_umh_start;
net/bpfilter/bpfilter_kern.c:extern char bpfilter_umh_end;
samples/bpf/task_fd_query_user.c: extern char __executable_start;
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/processor.c: extern char vectors;
tools/testing/selftests/x86/test_syscall_vdso.c:extern char int80;
Of those, it looks like only a handful might trip FORTIFY:
$ for i in $(git grep 'extern char [^\*\[\( ]*;' | grep -v boot/ | awk -F' ' '{print $NF}' | cut -d';' -f1); do git grep -E '(strcpy|memcpy|memset).*'"$i",; done
arch/arm/mach-rockchip/platsmp.c: memcpy_toio(sram_base_addr, &rockchip_secondary_trampoline, trampoline_sz);
arch/arm/mach-zynq/platsmp.c: memcpy_toio(zero, &zynq_secondary_trampoline,
arch/mips/dec/prom/memory.c: memcpy((void *)(CKSEG0 + 0x80), &genexcept_early, 0x80);
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/shmobile/pm.c: memcpy(vp, &sh_mobile_sleep_enter_start, n);
arch/sh/kernel/cpu/shmobile/pm.c: memcpy(vp, &sh_mobile_sleep_resume_start, n);
arch/arm64/mm/trans_pgd.c: memcpy(hyp_stub, &trans_pgd_stub_vectors, ARM64_VECTOR_TABLE_LEN);
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-03 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-02 22:49 [PATCH] kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char Kees Cook
2023-03-03 3:08 ` Joel Fernandes
2023-03-03 15:19 ` Alexander Lobakin
2023-03-03 20:36 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-03-06 10:39 ` Alexander Lobakin
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