linux-kernel - [RFC v3 4/5] char: mem: relax usercopy checks

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:53:45 +0400
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [RFC v3 4/5] char: mem: relax usercopy checks

RUNTIME_USER_COPY_CHECK restricts copy_*_user() to deny stack and slab
buffer overflows.  However, it is redundant for copying memory via
/dev/mem and /dev/kmem.  With STRICT_DEVMEM=n it should be possible to
copy any kernel memory without the checks.  So, use unchecked versions
of copy_*_user().

Include <linux/uaccess-check.h> is needed for architectures not yet
implementing DEBUG_RUNTIME_USER_COPY_CHECKS.

v3 - Simplified addition of new architectures.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
---
 drivers/char/mem.c |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 8fc04b4..39e4aba 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
 #include <linux/splice.h>
 #include <linux/pfn.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess-check.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ static ssize_t read_mem(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 		if (!ptr)
 			return -EFAULT;
 
-		remaining = copy_to_user(buf, ptr, sz);
+		remaining = copy_to_user_unchecked(buf, ptr, sz);
 		unxlate_dev_mem_ptr(p, ptr);
 		if (remaining)
 			return -EFAULT;
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ static ssize_t write_mem(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 			return -EFAULT;
 		}
 
-		copied = copy_from_user(ptr, buf, sz);
+		copied = copy_from_user_unchecked(ptr, buf, sz);
 		unxlate_dev_mem_ptr(p, ptr);
 		if (copied) {
 			written += sz - copied;
@@ -428,7 +429,7 @@ static ssize_t read_kmem(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 			 */
 			kbuf = xlate_dev_kmem_ptr((char *)p);
 
-			if (copy_to_user(buf, kbuf, sz))
+			if (copy_to_user_unchecked(buf, kbuf, sz))
 				return -EFAULT;
 			buf += sz;
 			p += sz;
@@ -498,7 +499,7 @@ static ssize_t do_write_kmem(unsigned long p, const char __user *buf,
 		 */
 		ptr = xlate_dev_kmem_ptr((char *)p);
 
-		copied = copy_from_user(ptr, buf, sz);
+		copied = copy_from_user_unchecked(ptr, buf, sz);
 		if (copied) {
 			written += sz - copied;
 			if (written)
--
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