linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 8/9] proc: use human-readable values for hidehid

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Date:   Sat, 28 Mar 2020 23:54:36 +0100
From:   Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Security Module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
        Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...il.com>,
        "Dmitry V . Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "J . Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 8/9] proc: use human-readable values for hidehid

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 02:52:55PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:14:53PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:28:28PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 06:23:30PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > +	if (!kstrtouint(param->string, base, &result.uint_32)) {
> > > > +		ctx->hidepid = result.uint_32;
> > > 
> > > This need to bounds-check the value with a call to valid_hidepid(), yes?
> > 
> > The kstrtouint returns 0 on success and -ERANGE on overflow [1].
> 
> No, I mean, hidepid cannot be just any uint32 value. It must be in the
> enum. Is that checked somewhere else? It looked like the call to
> valid_hidepid() was removed.

The valid_hidepid() is called after parsing the hidepid parameter value.
Yes, it can be called inside this condition.

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