x86: Turn the copy_from_user check into an (optional) compile time warning
A previous patch added the buffer size check to copy_from_user(). One of the things learned from analyzing the result of the previous patch is that in general, gcc is really good at proving that the code contains sufficient security checks to not need to do a runtime check. But that for those cases where gcc could not prove this, there was a relatively high percentage of real security issues. This patch turns the case of "gcc cannot prove" into a compile time warning, as long as a sufficiently new gcc is in use that supports this. The objective is that these warnings will trigger developers checking new cases out before a security hole enters a linux kernel release. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <20090930130523.348ae6c4@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@ -191,6 +191,13 @@ unsigned long __must_check _copy_from_user(void *to,
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const void __user *from,
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unsigned long n);
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extern void copy_from_user_overflow(void)
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#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
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__compiletime_warning("copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct")
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#endif
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;
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static inline unsigned long __must_check copy_from_user(void *to,
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const void __user *from,
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unsigned long n)
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@ -200,10 +207,9 @@ static inline unsigned long __must_check copy_from_user(void *to,
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if (likely(sz == -1 || sz >= n))
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ret = _copy_from_user(to, from, n);
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#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
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else
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WARN(1, "Buffer overflow detected!\n");
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#endif
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copy_from_user_overflow();
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return ret;
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}
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@ -883,3 +883,9 @@ _copy_from_user(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
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return n;
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_from_user);
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void copy_from_user_overflow(void)
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{
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WARN(1, "Buffer overflow detected!\n");
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_from_user_overflow);
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#endif
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#define __compiletime_object_size(obj) __builtin_object_size(obj, 0)
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#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4
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#define __compiletime_warning(message) __attribute__((warning(message)))
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#endif
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@ -270,6 +270,10 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
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#ifndef __compiletime_object_size
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# define __compiletime_object_size(obj) -1
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#endif
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#ifndef __compiletime_warning
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# define __compiletime_warning(message)
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#endif
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/*
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* Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses. The compiler
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* is also forbidden from reordering successive instances of ACCESS_ONCE(),
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