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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:57:50 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/38] usercopy: Enhance and rename report_usercopy()

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 9:06 AM, Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
>> index ad657ffa44e5..7d29e69ac310 100644
>> --- a/mm/slab.h
>> +++ b/mm/slab.h
>> @@ -526,4 +526,10 @@ static inline int cache_random_seq_create(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
>>  static inline void cache_random_seq_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep) { }
>>  #endif /* CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM */
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY
>> +void __noreturn usercopy_abort(const char *name, const char *detail,
>> +                            bool to_user, unsigned long offset,
>> +                            unsigned long len);
>> +#endif
>> +
>>  #endif /* MM_SLAB_H */
>
> This code has nothing to do with slab allocation. Move it into
> include/linux/uaccess.h where the other user space access definitions are?

Since it was only the mm/sl*b.c files using it, it seemed like the
right place, but it's a reasonable point. I've moved it now.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
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