linux-hardening - [PATCH] coredump: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size

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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 02:07:05 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] coredump: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size

Instead of discovering the kmalloc bucket size _after_ allocation, round
up proactively so the allocation is explicitly made for the full size,
allowing the compiler to correctly reason about the resulting size of
the buffer through the existing __alloc_size() hint.

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 fs/coredump.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 7bad7785e8e6..97eaee325251 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ struct core_name {
 
 static int expand_corename(struct core_name *cn, int size)
 {
-	char *corename = krealloc(cn->corename, size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	char *corename;
+
+	size = kmalloc_size_roundup(size);
+	corename = krealloc(cn->corename, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!corename)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -76,7 +79,7 @@ static int expand_corename(struct core_name *cn, int size)
 	if (size > core_name_size) /* racy but harmless */
 		core_name_size = size;
 
-	cn->size = ksize(corename);
+	cn->size = size;
 	cn->corename = corename;
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.34.1