netdev - Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 09/38] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches

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Message-ID: <bfca96db-bbd0-d958-7732-76e36c667c68@suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:14:20 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Windsor <dave@...lcore.net>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
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        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 09/38] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as
 usercopy caches

On 14. 11. 19, 22:27, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 01:21:54PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>> How is iucv the only network protocol that has run into this? Do others
>> use a bounce buffer?
> 
> Another solution would be to use a dedicated kmem cache (instead of the
> shared kmalloc dma one)?

Has there been any conclusion to this thread yet? For the time being, we
disabled HARDENED_USERCOPY on s390...

https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/9519edb7-456a-a2fa-659e-3e5a1ff89466@suse.cz/

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs