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Author SHA1 Message Date
Mark Charlebois
565cbdc2fe LLVMLinux: Add support for clang to compiler.h and new compiler-clang.h
Add a compiler-clang.h file to add specific macros needed for compiling the
kernel with clang.

Initially the only override required is the macro for silencing the
compiler for a purposefully uninintialized variable.

Author: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
2014-04-09 13:44:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
13c789a6b2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 "Here is the crypto update for 3.14:

   - Improved crypto_memneq helper
   - Use cyprto_memneq in arch-specific crypto code
   - Replaced orphaned DCP driver with Freescale MXS DCP driver
   - Added AVX/AVX2 version of AESNI-GCM encode and decode
   - Added AMD Cryptographic Coprocessor (CCP) driver
   - Misc fixes"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (41 commits)
  crypto: aesni - fix build on x86 (32bit)
  crypto: mxs - Fix sparse non static symbol warning
  crypto: ccp - CCP device enabled/disabled changes
  crypto: ccp - Cleanup hash invocation calls
  crypto: ccp - Change data length declarations to u64
  crypto: ccp - Check for caller result area before using it
  crypto: ccp - Cleanup scatterlist usage
  crypto: ccp - Apply appropriate gfp_t type to memory allocations
  crypto: drivers - Sort drivers/crypto/Makefile
  ARM: mxs: dts: Enable DCP for MXS
  crypto: mxs - Add Freescale MXS DCP driver
  crypto: mxs - Remove the old DCP driver
  crypto: ahash - Fully restore ahash request before completing
  crypto: aesni - fix build on x86 (32bit)
  crypto: talitos - Remove redundant dev_set_drvdata
  crypto: ccp - Remove redundant dev_set_drvdata
  crypto: crypto4xx - Remove redundant dev_set_drvdata
  crypto: caam - simplify and harden key parsing
  crypto: omap-sham - Fix Polling mode for larger blocks
  crypto: tcrypt - Added speed tests for AEAD crypto alogrithms in tcrypt test suite
  ...
2014-01-23 18:11:00 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
47933ad41a arch: Introduce smp_load_acquire(), smp_store_release()
A number of situations currently require the heavyweight smp_mb(),
even though there is no need to order prior stores against later
loads.  Many architectures have much cheaper ways to handle these
situations, but the Linux kernel currently has no portable way
to make use of them.

This commit therefore supplies smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() to remedy this situation.  The new
smp_load_acquire() primitive orders the specified load against
any subsequent reads or writes, while the new smp_store_release()
primitive orders the specifed store against any prior reads or
writes.  These primitives allow array-based circular FIFOs to be
implemented without an smp_mb(), and also allow a theoretical
hole in rcu_assign_pointer() to be closed at no additional
expense on most architectures.

In addition, the RCU experience transitioning from explicit
smp_read_barrier_depends() and smp_wmb() to rcu_dereference()
and rcu_assign_pointer(), respectively resulted in substantial
improvements in readability.  It therefore seems likely that
replacing other explicit barriers with smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() will provide similar benefits.  It appears
that roughly half of the explicit barriers in core kernel code
might be so replaced.

[Changelog by PaulMck]

Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131213150640.908486364@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-12 10:37:17 +01:00
Cesar Eduardo Barros
fe8c8a1268 crypto: more robust crypto_memneq
Disabling compiler optimizations can be fragile, since a new
optimization could be added to -O0 or -Os that breaks the assumptions
the code is making.

Instead of disabling compiler optimizations, use a dummy inline assembly
(based on RELOC_HIDE) to block the problematic kinds of optimization,
while still allowing other optimizations to be applied to the code.

The dummy inline assembly is added after every OR, and has the
accumulator variable as its input and output. The compiler is forced to
assume that the dummy inline assembly could both depend on the
accumulator variable and change the accumulator variable, so it is
forced to compute the value correctly before the inline assembly, and
cannot assume anything about its value after the inline assembly.

This change should be enough to make crypto_memneq work correctly (with
data-independent timing) even if it is inlined at its call sites. That
can be done later in a followup patch.

Compile-tested on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.eti.br>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2013-12-05 21:28:41 +08:00
Masami Hiramatsu
324670b620 kprobes: Move __kprobes definition into compiler.h
Currently, __kprobes is defined in linux/kprobes.h which
is too big to be included in small or basic headers
that want to make use of this simple attribute.

So move __kprobes definition into linux/compiler.h
in which other compiler attributes are defined.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130404104049.21071.20908.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
[ Improved the attribute explanation a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-04-08 17:28:34 +02:00
Daniel Santos
9a8ab1c399 bug.h, compiler.h: introduce compiletime_assert & BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG
Introduce compiletime_assert to compiler.h, which moves the details of
how to break a build and emit an error message for a specific compiler
to the headers where these details should be.  Following in the
tradition of the POSIX assert macro, compiletime_assert creates a
build-time error when the supplied condition is *false*.

Next, we add BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG to bug.h which simply wraps
compiletime_assert, inverting the logic, so that it fails when the
condition is *true*, consistent with the language "build bug on." This
macro allows you to specify the error message you want emitted when the
supplied condition is true.

Finally, we remove all other code from bug.h that mucks with these
details (BUILD_BUG & BUILD_BUG_ON), and have them all call
BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG.  This not only reduces source code bloat, but also
prevents the possibility of code being changed for one macro and not for
the other (which was previously the case for BUILD_BUG and
BUILD_BUG_ON).

Since __compiletime_error_fallback is now only used in compiler.h, I'm
considering it a private macro and removing the double negation that's
now extraneous.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-21 17:22:16 -08:00
Daniel Santos
c361d3e543 compiler.h, bug.h: prevent double error messages with BUILD_BUG{,_ON}
Prior to the introduction of __attribute__((error("msg"))) in gcc 4.3,
creating compile-time errors required a little trickery.
BUILD_BUG{,_ON} uses this attribute when available to generate
compile-time errors, but also uses the negative-sized array trick for
older compilers, resulting in two error messages in some cases.  The
reason it's "some" cases is that as of gcc 4.4, the negative-sized array
will not create an error in some situations, like inline functions.

This patch replaces the negative-sized array code with the new
__compiletime_error_fallback() macro which expands to the same thing
unless the the error attribute is available, in which case it expands to
do{}while(0), resulting in exactly one compile-time error on all
versions of gcc.

Note that we are not changing the negative-sized array code for the
unoptimized version of BUILD_BUG_ON, since it has the potential to catch
problems that would be disabled in later versions of gcc were
__compiletime_error_fallback used.  The reason is that that an
unoptimized build can't always remove calls to an error-attributed
function call (like we are using) that should effectively become dead
code if it were optimized.  However, using a negative-sized array with a
similar value will not result in an false-positive (error).  The only
caveat being that it will also fail to catch valid conditions, which we
should be expecting in an unoptimized build anyway.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-21 17:22:16 -08:00
Daniel Santos
6ae8d04871 compiler{,-gcc4}.h, bug.h: Remove duplicate macros
__linktime_error() does the same thing as __compiletime_error() and is
only used in bug.h.  Since the macro defines a function attribute that
will cause a failure at compile-time (not link-time), it makes more sense
to keep __compiletime_error(), which is also neatly mated with
__compiletime_warning().

Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-21 17:22:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7a684c452e Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who
  want to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard
  IMA on it or other security hooks."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Fix kbuild output when using default extra_certificates
  MODSIGN: Avoid using .incbin in C source
  modules: don't hand 0 to vmalloc.
  module: Remove a extra null character at the top of module->strtab.
  ASN.1: Use the ASN1_LONG_TAG and ASN1_INDEFINITE_LENGTH constants
  ASN.1: Define indefinite length marker constant
  moduleparam: use __UNIQUE_ID()
  __UNIQUE_ID()
  MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target
  powerpc: add finit_module syscall.
  ima: support new kernel module syscall
  add finit_module syscall to asm-generic
  ARM: add finit_module syscall to ARM
  security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook
  module: add flags arg to sys_finit_module()
  module: add syscall to load module from fd
2012-12-19 07:55:08 -08:00
Josh Triplett
8529091e8e linux/compiler.h: add __must_hold macro for functions called with a lock held
linux/compiler.h has macros to denote functions that acquire or release
locks, but not to denote functions called with a lock held that return
with the lock still held.  Add a __must_hold macro to cover that case.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reported-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Tested-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:23 -08:00
Rusty Russell
6f33d58794 __UNIQUE_ID()
Jan Beulich points out __COUNTER__ (gcc 4.3 and above), so let's use
that to create unique ids.  This is better than __LINE__ which we use
today, so provide a wrapper.

Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> reported that some module parameters
start with a digit, so we need to prepend when we for the unique id.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
2012-12-14 13:05:30 +10:30
Andi Kleen
9a858dc7ce compiler.h: add __visible
gcc 4.6+ has support for a externally_visible attribute that prevents the
optimizer from optimizing unused symbols away.  Add a __visible macro to
use it with that compiler version or later.

This is used (at least) by the "Link Time Optimization" patchset.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-17 15:00:38 -07:00
Alexander Stein
e6be0c9e7e compiler.h: Fix typo
Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-02-28 16:02:54 +01:00
David Daney
1399ff86f2 kernel.h: add BUILD_BUG() macro
We can place this in definitions that we expect the compiler to remove by
dead code elimination.  If this assertion fails, we get a nice error
message at build time.

The GCC function attribute error("message") was added in version 4.3, so
we define a new macro __linktime_error(message) to expand to this for
GCC-4.3 and later.  This will give us an error diagnostic from the
compiler on the line that fails.  For other compilers
__linktime_error(message) expands to nothing, and we have to be content
with a link time error, but at least we will still get a build error.

BUILD_BUG() expands to the undefined function __build_bug_failed() and
will fail at link time if the compiler ever emits code for it.  On GCC-4.3
and later, attribute((error())) is used so that the failure will be noted
at compile time instead.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: DM <dm.n9107@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
ca5ecddfa8 rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse
This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier.
This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected
pointers.  If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed
directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(),
or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain.  To enable
such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
kernel configuration option.  Please note that these sparse complaints are
intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism.

There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer()
accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for
example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question
or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock.

This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing
their age.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-19 17:17:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
71d1d5c722 rcu: add __rcu API for later sparse checking
This commit defines an __rcu API, but provides only vacuous definitions
for it.  This breaks dependencies among most of the subsequent patches,
allowing them to reach mainline asynchronously via whatever trees are
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-06-14 16:37:26 -07:00
Tejun Heo
32032df6c2 Merge branch 'master' into percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
	include/linux/percpu.h
2010-01-05 09:17:33 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
ef26b1691d Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h: Fix build bug - gcc-4.0.2 doesn't understand __builtin_object_size
  x86/alternatives: No need for alternatives-asm.h to re-invent stuff already in asm.h
  x86/alternatives: Check replacementlen <= instrlen at build time
  x86, 64-bit: Set data segments to null after switching to 64-bit mode
  x86: Clean up the loadsegment() macro
  x86: Optimize loadsegment()
  x86: Add missing might_fault() checks to copy_{to,from}_user()
  x86-64: __copy_from_user_inatomic() adjustments
  x86: Remove unused thread_return label from switch_to()
  x86, 64-bit: Fix bstep_iret jump
  x86: Don't use the strict copy checks when branch profiling is in use
  x86, 64-bit: Move K8 B step iret fixup to fault entry asm
  x86: Generate cmpxchg build failures
  x86: Add a Kconfig option to turn the copy_from_user warnings into errors
  x86: Turn the copy_from_user check into an (optional) compile time warning
  x86: Use __builtin_memset and __builtin_memcpy for memset/memcpy
  x86: Use __builtin_object_size() to validate the buffer size for copy_from_user()
2009-12-05 15:32:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
96fa2b508d Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits)
  tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities
  tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage
  ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19
  tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h
  tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount
  tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used
  ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used
  tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local
  ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps
  kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations
  tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute
  compiler: Introduce __always_unused
  tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl
  ...
2009-12-05 09:53:36 -08:00
David Daney
38938c879e Add support for GCC-4.5's __builtin_unreachable() to compiler.h (v2)
Starting with version 4.5, GCC has a new built-in function
__builtin_unreachable() that can be used in places like the kernel's
BUG() where inline assembly is used to transfer control flow.  This
eliminated the need for an endless loop in these places.

The patch adds a new macro 'unreachable()' that will expand to either
__builtin_unreachable() or an endless loop depending on the compiler
version.

Change from v1: Simplify unreachable() for non-GCC 4.5 case.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-05 09:10:12 -08:00
Li Zefan
7b2a35132a compiler: Introduce __always_unused
I wrote some code which is used as compile-time checker, and the
code should be elided after compile.

So I need to annotate the code as "always unused", compared to
"maybe unused".

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AEE2CEC.8040206@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 15:47:54 +01:00
Rusty Russell
e0fdb0e050 percpu: add __percpu for sparse.
We have to make __kernel "__attribute__((address_space(0)))" so we can
cast to it.

tj: * put_cpu_var() update.

    * Annotations added to dynamic allocator interface.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-10-29 22:34:15 +09:00
Arjan van de Ven
63312b6a6f x86: Add a Kconfig option to turn the copy_from_user warnings into errors
For automated testing it is useful to have the option to turn
the warnings on copy_from_user() etc checks into errors:

 In function ‘copy_from_user’,
     inlined from ‘fd_copyin’ at drivers/block/floppy.c:3080,
     inlined from ‘fd_ioctl’ at drivers/block/floppy.c:3503:
   linux/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:213:
  error: call to ‘copy_from_user_overflow’ declared with attribute error:
  copy_from_user buffer size is not provably correct

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091002075050.4e9f7641@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-02 19:01:42 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
4a31276930 x86: Turn the copy_from_user check into an (optional) compile time warning
A previous patch added the buffer size check to copy_from_user().

One of the things learned from analyzing the result of the previous
patch is that in general, gcc is really good at proving that the
code contains sufficient security checks to not need to do a
runtime check. But that for those cases where gcc could not prove
this, there was a relatively high percentage of real security
issues.

This patch turns the case of "gcc cannot prove" into a compile time
warning, as long as a sufficiently new gcc is in use that supports
this. The objective is that these warnings will trigger developers
checking new cases out before a security hole enters a linux kernel
release.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090930130523.348ae6c4@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01 11:31:04 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
9f0cf4adb6 x86: Use __builtin_object_size() to validate the buffer size for copy_from_user()
gcc (4.x) supports the __builtin_object_size() builtin, which
reports the size of an object that a pointer point to, when known
at compile time. If the buffer size is not known at compile time, a
constant -1 is returned.

This patch uses this feature to add a sanity check to
copy_from_user(); if the target buffer is known to be smaller than
the copy size, the copy is aborted and a WARNing is emitted in
memory debug mode.

These extra checks compile away when the object size is not known,
or if both the buffer size and the copy length are constants.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090926143301.2c396b94@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-26 16:25:41 +02:00