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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-04 03:24:22 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-10-04 03:24:22 +0300
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Merge tag 'hardening-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull kernel hardening updates from Kees Cook: "Most of the collected changes here are fixes across the tree for various hardening features (details noted below). The most notable new feature here is the addition of the memcpy() overflow warning (under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE), which is the next step on the path to killing the common class of "trivially detectable" buffer overflow conditions (i.e. on arrays with sizes known at compile time) that have resulted in many exploitable vulnerabilities over the years (e.g. BleedingTooth). This feature is expected to still have some undiscovered false positives. It's been in -next for a full development cycle and all the reported false positives have been fixed in their respective trees. All the known-bad code patterns we could find with Coccinelle are also either fixed in their respective trees or in flight. The commit message in commit 54d9469bc515 ("fortify: Add run-time WARN for cross-field memcpy()") for the feature has extensive details, but I'll repeat here that this is a warning _only_, and is not intended to actually block overflows (yet). The many patches fixing array sizes and struct members have been landing for several years now, and we're finally able to turn this on to find any remaining stragglers. Summary: Various fixes across several hardening areas: - loadpin: Fix verity target enforcement (Matthias Kaehlcke). - zero-call-used-regs: Add missing clobbers in paravirt (Bill Wendling). - CFI: clean up sparc function pointer type mismatches (Bart Van Assche). - Clang: Adjust compiler flag detection for various Clang changes (Sami Tolvanen, Kees Cook). - fortify: Fix warnings in arch-specific code in sh, ARM, and xen. Improvements to existing features: - testing: improve overflow KUnit test, introduce fortify KUnit test, add more coverage to LKDTM tests (Bart Van Assche, Kees Cook). - overflow: Relax overflow type checking for wider utility. New features: - string: Introduce strtomem() and strtomem_pad() to fill a gap in strncpy() replacement needs. - um: Enable FORTIFY_SOURCE support. - fortify: Enable run-time struct member memcpy() overflow warning" * tag 'hardening-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (27 commits) Makefile.extrawarn: Move -Wcast-function-type-strict to W=1 hardening: Remove Clang's enable flag for -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero sparc: Unbreak the build x86/paravirt: add extra clobbers with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS enabled x86/paravirt: clean up typos and grammaros fortify: Convert to struct vs member helpers fortify: Explicitly check bounds are compile-time constants x86/entry: Work around Clang __bdos() bug ARM: decompressor: Include .data.rel.ro.local fortify: Adjust KUnit test for modular build sh: machvec: Use char[] for section boundaries kunit/memcpy: Avoid pathological compile-time string size lib: Improve the is_signed_type() kunit test LoadPin: Require file with verity root digests to have a header dm: verity-loadpin: Only trust verity targets with enforcement LoadPin: Fix Kconfig doc about format of file with verity digests um: Enable FORTIFY_SOURCE lkdtm: Update tests for memcpy() run-time warnings fortify: Add run-time WARN for cross-field memcpy() fortify: Use SIZE_MAX instead of (size_t)-1 ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
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--- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
@@ -138,17 +138,20 @@ be NUL terminated. This can lead to various linear read overflows and
other misbehavior due to the missing termination. It also NUL-pads
the destination buffer if the source contents are shorter than the
destination buffer size, which may be a needless performance penalty
-for callers using only NUL-terminated strings. The safe replacement is
+for callers using only NUL-terminated strings.
+
+When the destination is required to be NUL-terminated, the replacement is
strscpy(), though care must be given to any cases where the return value
of strncpy() was used, since strscpy() does not return a pointer to the
destination, but rather a count of non-NUL bytes copied (or negative
errno when it truncates). Any cases still needing NUL-padding should
instead use strscpy_pad().
-If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strncpy() can
-still be used, but destinations should be marked with the `__nonstring
+If a caller is using non-NUL-terminated strings, strtomem() should be
+used, and the destinations should be marked with the `__nonstring
<https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html>`_
-attribute to avoid future compiler warnings.
+attribute to avoid future compiler warnings. For cases still needing
+NUL-padding, strtomem_pad() can be used.
strlcpy()
---------