linux-kernel - Re: SLUB + UML : WARNING: at mm/page

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Date:	Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:10:40 +0100
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	user-mode-linux-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@...il.com>
Subject: Re: SLUB + UML : WARNING: at mm/page_alloc.c:2386

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de> wrote:
> On 03/14/2013 10:21 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
>> hah, strndup_user taking a signed long instead of a size_t as it's length arg.
>>
>> either it needs to change, or it needs an explicit check for < 1
>>
>> I wonder how many other paths make it possible to pass negative numbers here.
>
> just for the statistics - currently -14 rules  :
>
> 2013-03-14T22:06:21.618+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: -14
> 2013-03-14T22:06:25.664+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: 28
> 2013-03-14T22:06:25.664+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: -14
> 2013-03-14T22:06:37.533+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: 3
> 2013-03-14T22:08:03.379+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: -14
> 2013-03-14T22:09:34.668+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: -14
> 2013-03-14T22:12:33.277+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: -14
> 2013-03-14T22:13:15.214+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: 2
> 2013-03-14T22:14:18.874+01:00 trinity kernel: trinity-watchdo[1169]: segfault at 244 ip 0804c956 sp bf836c9c error 4 in trinity[8048000+1d000]
> 2013-03-14T22:15:10.287+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: 2
> 2013-03-14T22:15:10.287+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: 2
> 2013-03-14T22:17:50.351+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: 2
> 2013-03-14T22:17:59.411+01:00 trinity kernel: memdup_user: -14
>

-14 is -EFAULT.
Time to look at UML's __get_user().

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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