Re: [PATCH] uaccess: Add minimum bounds check on kernel buffer size

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 10:23 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, at 20:35, Kees Cook wrote:
> > --- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
> > @@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ copy_struct_from_user(void *dst, size_t ksize,
> > const void __user *src,
> >       size_t size = min(ksize, usize);
> >       size_t rest = max(ksize, usize) - size;
> >
> > +     /* Double check if ksize is larger than a known object size. */
> > +     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ksize > __builtin_object_size(dst, 1)))
> > +             return -E2BIG;
> > +
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE() may be a little expensive since that adds two
> comparisons and a static variable to each copy, but it's probably
> fine.

When seeing this, I was a bit worried about the size increase.
Hence I gave it a try on atari_defconfig and ran bloat-o-meter.
Surprisingly, there was no size increase at all, as all checks
were optimized away.

Hence perhaps this can become a compile-time check?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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