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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 11:32:00 +0530
From: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@...il.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com>, 
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Get involved

Hi Kees,

>
> Hi! Sorry for the late reply: I've been travelling this week. :P

> > Okay, np. I will select another one then :) (hehe that's the game ;) )
> >
> > @Kees: do you have something in mind (as a new task) ?
> Shyam, you'd also started FIELD_SIZEOF refactoring, but never sent a v2
> patch if I was following correctly? Is there one or the other of these
> tasks you'd like help with?  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10900187/

sorry for being too late.

You assigned me 3 tasks
1) FIELD_SIZEOF
2) WARN on kfree() of ERR_PTR range
3) NLA_STRING

I'll send patches for task 1 and 2 today or tomorrow.

If Roman is taking NLA_STRING task, I'd pick some other once i send
patches for 1 and 2.


> Romain, what do you think about reviewing NLA code? I'd mentioned a
> third task here:
> https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2019/04/17/8
>
> Quoting...
>
>
> - audit and fix all misuse of NLA_STRING
>
> This is a following up on noticing the misuse of NLA_STRING (no NUL
> terminator), getting used with regular string functions (that expect a
> NUL termination):
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1519329289.2637.12.camel@sipsolutions.net/T/#u
>
> It'd be nice if someone could inspect all the NLA_STRING
> representations and find if there are any other problems like this
> (and see if there was a good way to systemically fix the problem).
>
>
>
> For yet another idea would be to get syzkaller[1] set up and enable
> integer overflow detection (by adding "-fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow"
> to KBUILD_CFLAGS) and start finding and fixes cases like this[2].
>
> Thanks and let me know what you think!
>
> -Kees
>
> [1] https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/linux/setup.md
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180824215439.GA46785@beast/
>
>
> --
> Kees Cook

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