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Daniel Axtens c69a48cdb3 powerpc: make feature-fixup tests fortify-safe
Testing the fortified string functions[1] would cause a kernel panic on
boot in test_feature_fixups() due to a buffer overflow in memcmp.

This boils down to things like this:

  extern unsigned int ftr_fixup_test1;
  extern unsigned int ftr_fixup_test1_orig;

  check(memcmp(&ftr_fixup_test1, &ftr_fixup_test1_orig, size) == 0);

We know that these are asm labels so it is safe to read up to 'size'
bytes at those addresses.

However, because we have passed the address of a single unsigned int to
memcmp, the compiler believes the underlying object is in fact a single
unsigned int.  So if size > sizeof(unsigned int), there will be a panic
at runtime.

We can fix this by changing the types: instead of calling the asm labels
unsigned ints, call them unsigned int[]s.  Therefore the size isn't
incorrectly determined at compile time and we get a regular unsafe
memcmp and no panic.

[1] http://openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/05/09/2

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497903987-21002-7-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00
arch powerpc: make feature-fixup tests fortify-safe 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-07-11 15:36:52 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto dmaengine updates for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-08 12:36:50 -07:00
Documentation fault-inject: support systematic fault injection 2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
drivers IB/rxe: do not copy extra stack memory to skb 2017-07-12 16:26:03 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs fault-inject: support systematic fault injection 2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
include kernel/watchdog: split up config options 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kernel kexec_file: adjust declaration of kexec_purgatory 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
lib kernel/watchdog: split up config options 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
mm mm/memory.c: mark create_huge_pmd() inline to prevent build failure 2017-07-12 16:25:59 -07:00
net net/netfilter/x_tables.c: use kvmalloc() in xt_alloc_table_info() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
samples kfifo: clean up example to not use page_link 2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
scripts scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: use explicit encoding=utf8 errors=replace 2017-07-12 16:26:01 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.memdup_user' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-05 16:05:24 -07:00
sound main drm pull for v4.13 2017-07-09 18:48:37 -07:00
tools test_sysctl: test against int proc_dointvec() array support 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt PPC: 2017-07-06 18:38:31 -07:00
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.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.