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Message-Id: <20200514184419.0fbf548ccf883c097d94573a@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 18:44:19 +0900
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/18] maccess: remove strncpy_from_unsafe
On Wed, 13 May 2020 19:43:24 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 6:00 PM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > But we should likely at least disallow it entirely on platforms where
> > > we really can't - or pick one hardcoded choice. On sparc, you really
> > > _have_ to specify one or the other.
> >
> > OK. BTW, is there any way to detect the kernel/user space overlap on
> > memory layout statically? If there, I can do it. (I don't like
> > "if (CONFIG_X86)" thing....)
> > Or, maybe we need CONFIG_ARCH_OVERLAP_ADDRESS_SPACE?
>
> I think it would be better to have a CONFIG variable that
> architectures can just 'select' to show that they are ok with separate
> kernel and user addresses.
>
> Because I don't think we have any way to say that right now as-is. You
> can probably come up with hacky ways to approximate it, ie something
> like
>
> if (TASK_SIZE_MAX > PAGE_OFFSET)
> .... they overlap ..
>
> which would almost work, but..
It seems TASK_SIZE_MAX is defined only on x86 and s390, what about
comparing STACK_TOP_MAX with PAGE_OFFSET ?
Anyway, I agree that the best way is introducing a CONFIG.
Thank you,
--
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
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