linux-kernel - [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0

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Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 16:36:35 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 21/23] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0

With all known usercopied cache whitelists now defined in the kernel, switch
the default usercopy region of kmem_cache_create() to size 0. Any new caches
with usercopy regions will now need to use kmem_cache_create_usercopy()
instead of kmem_cache_create().

This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>
---
 mm/slab_common.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 685321a0d355..2365dd21623d 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *
 kmem_cache_create(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
 		unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
 {
-	return kmem_cache_create_usercopy(name, size, align, flags, 0, size,
+	return kmem_cache_create_usercopy(name, size, align, flags, 0, 0,
 					  ctor);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_create);
-- 
2.7.4