linux-hardening - [PATCH] string: Add __alloc

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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 01:22:41 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] string: Add __alloc_size hint to kmemdup()

Add __alloc_size() hint to kmemdup() so the compiler can reason about
the length of the returned buffer.

Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 include/linux/fortify-string.h | 3 ++-
 include/linux/string.h         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fortify-string.h b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
index b166364ce3e0..aa1a50009632 100644
--- a/include/linux/fortify-string.h
+++ b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
@@ -661,7 +661,8 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE void *memchr_inv(const void * const POS0 p, int c, size_t size)
 	return __real_memchr_inv(p, c, size);
 }
 
-extern void *__real_kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) __RENAME(kmemdup);
+extern void *__real_kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) __RENAME(kmemdup)
+								    __alloc_size(2);
 __FORTIFY_INLINE void *kmemdup(const void * const POS0 p, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	size_t p_size = __struct_size(p);
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index cf7607b32102..af1d69e5610e 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ extern void kfree_const(const void *x);
 extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp) __malloc;
 extern const char *kstrdup_const(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
 extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
-extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
+extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) __alloc_size(2);
 extern char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
 
 extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);
-- 
2.34.1