On 10/26/2013 03:31 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote:Commits 4a3127693001c61a21d1ce680db6340623f52e93 ("x86: Turn the copy_from_user check into an (optional) compile time warning") and 63312b6a6faae3f2e5577f2b001e3b504f10a2aa ("x86: Add a Kconfig option to turn the copy_from_user warnings into errors") touched only the 32-bit variant of copy_from_user(), whereas the original commit 9f0cf4adb6aa0bfccf675c938124e68f7f06349d ("x86: Use __builtin_object_size() to validate the buffer size for copy_from_user()") also added the same code to the 64-bit one. Further the earlier conversion from an inline WARN() to the call to copy_from_user_overflow() went a little too far: When the number of bytes to be copied is not a constant (e.g. [looking at 3.11] in drivers/net/tun.c:__tun_chr_ioctl() or drivers/pci/pcie/aer/aer_inject.c:aer_inject_write()), the compiler will always have to keep the funtion call, and hence there will always be a warning. By using __builtin_constant_p() we can avoid this. And then this slightly extends the effect of CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS in that apart from converting warnings to errors in the constant size case, it retains the (possibly wrong) warnings in the non-constant size case, such that if someone is prepared to get a few false positives, (s)he'll be able to recover the current behavior (except that these diagnostics now will never be converted to errors). Since the 32-bit variant (intentionally) didn't call might_fault(), the unification results in this being called twice now. Adding a suitable #ifdef would be the alternative if that's a problem.Addressing that sanely would be nice.I'd like to point out though that with __compiletime_object_size() being restricted to gcc before 4.6, the whole construct is going to become more and more pointless going forward. I would question however that commit 2fb0815c9ee6b9ac50e15dd8360ec76d9fa46a2 ("gcc4: disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+") was really necessary, and instead this should have been dealt with as is done here from the beginning.Can we now revert 2fb0815c9ee6?
I sure don't mind if there is a different and better solution. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
