linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] test: check copy_to/from

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Message-Id: <20131203134701.e3bc01aa8b20bddfb73f53c6@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 2013 13:47:01 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] test: check copy_to/from_user boundary validation

On Tue,  3 Dec 2013 13:27:34 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:

> To help avoid an architecture failing to correctly check kernel/user
> boundaries when handling copy_to_user, copy_from_user, put_user, or
> get_user, perform some simple tests and fail to load if any of them
> behave unexpectedly.
> 
> Specifically, this is to make sure there is a way to notice if things
> like what was fixed in 8404663f81d212918ff85f493649a7991209fa04 ("ARM:
> 7527/1: uaccess: explicitly check __user pointer when !CPU_USE_DOMAINS")
> ever regresses again, for any architecture.

I guess the challenge will be to get anyone to remember to run this.

Really, this could be viewed as a candidate for
tools/testing/selftests.  The tests in there are userspace tests, and
your userspace test would consist of "modprobe test_user_copy".  The
advantage of this is that your test will get included whenever someone
runs the selftest suite.  This is better than having it stranded over
in ./kernel/.

> ---
>  kernel/Makefile         |    1 +
>  kernel/test_user_copy.c |  103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/Kconfig.debug       |   13 ++++++

We already have a whole pile of test modules - seven of them reside in
lib/ and I think there's an RCU one somewhere.  Can we bring order to
all of this?  Some form of integration under tools/testing would be one
approach.

If you're disinclined to undertake such a project at this time, I'd
suggest these two go into lib/ so they are known about if/when someone
goes for the big cleanup.

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