linux-kernel - Re: Lightweight type analysis for memory safety through verification of API uses

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Date:	Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:11:45 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Marcelo Sousa <marceloabsousa@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, msousa@...ox.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Lightweight type analysis for memory safety through verification of API uses

Marcelo Sousa <marceloabsousa@...il.com> writes:

> I've designed and implemented a tool similar to sparse and CQUAL that
> does type inference of user specified type qualifiers, e.g. iomem. It
> receives an API specification with the type qualifiers and also a
> partial order, e.g. IOAddr is not compatible with KernelAddr and
> ioremap returns a pointer to IOAddr while __kmalloc returns a pointer
> to a KernelAddr.

Tracking iomem is ultimatively not very interesting, as in many common
architectures it's just a normal pointer.

__user is much more interesting, as that is real security bugs.
You can probably find some in standard security advisories.

Really interesting would be static lock set tracking for pointers
and similar.

-Andi

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