| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-ID: <20180308181154.z2pipjykwos2mpzs@treble>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 12:11:54 -0600
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>,
"Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
Linux Btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove accidental VLA usage
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 10:02:01AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 07:30:44PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> This series adds SIMPLE_MAX() to be used in places where a stack array
> >> is actually fixed, but the compiler still warns about VLA usage due to
> >> confusion caused by the safety checks in the max() macro.
> >>
> >> I'm sending these via -mm since that's where I've introduced SIMPLE_MAX(),
> >> and they should all have no operational differences.
> >
> > What if we instead simplify the max() macro's type checking so that GCC
> > can more easily fold the array size constants? The below patch seems to
> > work:
>
> Oooooh magic! Very nice. I couldn't figure out how to do this when I
> stared at it. Yes, let me respin. (I assume I can add your S-o-b?)
I'm going to be traveling for a few days, so I bequeath the patch to
you. You can add my SOB. I agree with Steve's suggestion to run it
through 0-day.
>
> -Kees
>
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> > index 3fd291503576..ec863726da29 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> > @@ -782,42 +782,32 @@ ftrace_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
> > static inline void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode) { }
> > #endif /* CONFIG_TRACING */
> >
> > -/*
> > - * min()/max()/clamp() macros that also do
> > - * strict type-checking.. See the
> > - * "unnecessary" pointer comparison.
> > - */
> > -#define __min(t1, t2, min1, min2, x, y) ({ \
> > - t1 min1 = (x); \
> > - t2 min2 = (y); \
> > - (void) (&min1 == &min2); \
> > - min1 < min2 ? min1 : min2; })
> > +extern long __error_incompatible_types_in_min_macro;
> > +extern long __error_incompatible_types_in_max_macro;
> > +
> > +#define __min(t1, t2, x, y) \
> > + __builtin_choose_expr(__builtin_types_compatible_p(t1, t2), \
> > + (t1)(x) < (t2)(y) ? (t1)(x) : (t2)(y), \
> > + (t1)__error_incompatible_types_in_min_macro)
> >
> > /**
> > * min - return minimum of two values of the same or compatible types
> > * @x: first value
> > * @y: second value
> > */
> > -#define min(x, y) \
> > - __min(typeof(x), typeof(y), \
> > - __UNIQUE_ID(min1_), __UNIQUE_ID(min2_), \
> > - x, y)
> > +#define min(x, y) __min(typeof(x), typeof(y), x, y) \
> >
> > -#define __max(t1, t2, max1, max2, x, y) ({ \
> > - t1 max1 = (x); \
> > - t2 max2 = (y); \
> > - (void) (&max1 == &max2); \
> > - max1 > max2 ? max1 : max2; })
> > +#define __max(t1, t2, x, y) \
> > + __builtin_choose_expr(__builtin_types_compatible_p(t1, t2), \
> > + (t1)(x) > (t2)(y) ? (t1)(x) : (t2)(y), \
> > + (t1)__error_incompatible_types_in_max_macro)
> >
> > /**
> > * max - return maximum of two values of the same or compatible types
> > * @x: first value
> > * @y: second value
> > */
> > -#define max(x, y) \
> > - __max(typeof(x), typeof(y), \
> > - __UNIQUE_ID(max1_), __UNIQUE_ID(max2_), \
> > - x, y)
> > +#define max(x, y) __max(typeof(x), typeof(y), x, y)
> >
> > /**
> > * min3 - return minimum of three values
> > @@ -869,10 +859,7 @@ static inline void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode) { }
> > * @x: first value
> > * @y: second value
> > */
> > -#define min_t(type, x, y) \
> > - __min(type, type, \
> > - __UNIQUE_ID(min1_), __UNIQUE_ID(min2_), \
> > - x, y)
> > +#define min_t(type, x, y) __min(type, type, x, y)
> >
> > /**
> > * max_t - return maximum of two values, using the specified type
> > @@ -880,10 +867,7 @@ static inline void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode) { }
> > * @x: first value
> > * @y: second value
> > */
> > -#define max_t(type, x, y) \
> > - __max(type, type, \
> > - __UNIQUE_ID(min1_), __UNIQUE_ID(min2_), \
> > - x, y)
> > +#define max_t(type, x, y) __max(type, type, x, y) \
> >
> > /**
> > * clamp_t - return a value clamped to a given range using a given type
>
>
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Pixel Security
--
Josh
Powered by blists - more mailing lists