linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: remove HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY

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Message-ID: <f2ca936a-1441-4cbd-b16c-ff2d54630a75@lucifer.local>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2023 08:15:23 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: remove HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 10:28:32AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[snip]
> > > The file is only compiled with CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY:
> > >
> > > mm/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY) += usercopy.o
> > >
> >
> > Yeah ugh at this sort of implicit thing. Anyway it'd be preferable to stick
> > #ifdef CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY around the prototype just so it's
> > abundantly clear this function doesn't exist unless that is set.
>
> I recall that it is very common to not use ifdefs unless really required.
> Because less ifefs are obviously preferable ;)
>
> Compilation+linking will fail in any case.
>

I don't want to insist so hard on something that doesn't really matter, the
bike shed can be blue, green or red it's fine :P

So,

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>