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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:42:31 +0300
From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@...aani.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Baoquan
He <bhe@...hat.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, Matt
Redfearn <matt.redfearn@...tec.com>, x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin"
<hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov
<bp@...en8.de>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Andy Lutomirski
<luto@...nel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Dave Young
<dyoung@...hat.com>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, LKML
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/21] x86, boot: Report overlap failures in memcpy
On 2016-04-14 Kees Cook wrote:
> From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
>
> parse_elf is using a local memcpy to move sections to their final
> running position. However, this memcpy only supports non-overlapping
> arguments (or dest < src).
The same copy of memcpy is used by the decompressors too.
> To avoid future hard-to-debug surprises, this adds checking in memcpy
> to detect the unhandled condition (which should not be happening
> currently).
It's already a minor surprise that memcpy is expected to work for
overlapping buffers at all. It could be good to have a comment about
it because "scroll" and parse_elf seem to rely on it.
On the other hand, the new code and error message take quite a few bytes
of space, so a complete memmove can be smaller:
void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
{
unsigned char *d = dest;
const unsigned char *s = src;
if (d <= s || d - s >= n)
return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
while (n-- > 0)
d[n] = s[n];
return dest;
}
Note that memmove is needed by lib/decompress_unxz.c. It contains its
own small version inside a "#ifndef memmove" block. That #ifndef should
be taken into account when adding a memmove symbol. Changing
decompress_unxz.c is fine but then one needs to think about other
archs too.
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