netdev - [PATCH 01/38] usercopy: Remove pointer from overflow report

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Message-Id: <1515636190-24061-2-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:02:33 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
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        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
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Subject: [PATCH 01/38] usercopy: Remove pointer from overflow report

Using %p was already mostly useless in the usercopy overflow reports,
so this removes it entirely to avoid confusion now that %p-hashing
is enabled.

Fixes: ad67b74d2469d9b8 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 mm/usercopy.c | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
index a9852b24715d..5df1e68d4585 100644
--- a/mm/usercopy.c
+++ b/mm/usercopy.c
@@ -58,12 +58,11 @@ static noinline int check_stack_object(const void *obj, unsigned long len)
 	return GOOD_STACK;
 }
 
-static void report_usercopy(const void *ptr, unsigned long len,
-			    bool to_user, const char *type)
+static void report_usercopy(unsigned long len, bool to_user, const char *type)
 {
-	pr_emerg("kernel memory %s attempt detected %s %p (%s) (%lu bytes)\n",
+	pr_emerg("kernel memory %s attempt detected %s '%s' (%lu bytes)\n",
 		to_user ? "exposure" : "overwrite",
-		to_user ? "from" : "to", ptr, type ? : "unknown", len);
+		to_user ? "from" : "to", type ? : "unknown", len);
 	/*
 	 * For greater effect, it would be nice to do do_group_exit(),
 	 * but BUG() actually hooks all the lock-breaking and per-arch
@@ -261,6 +260,6 @@ void __check_object_size(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, bool to_user)
 		return;
 
 report:
-	report_usercopy(ptr, n, to_user, err);
+	report_usercopy(n, to_user, err);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__check_object_size);
-- 
2.7.4