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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-12-14 23:20:00 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-12-14 23:20:00 +0300
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downloadlinux-48ea09cddae0b794cde2070f106ef676703dbcd3.tar.xz
Merge tag 'hardening-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull kernel hardening updates from Kees Cook: - Convert flexible array members, fix -Wstringop-overflow warnings, and fix KCFI function type mismatches that went ignored by maintainers (Gustavo A. R. Silva, Nathan Chancellor, Kees Cook) - Remove the remaining side-effect users of ksize() by converting dma-buf, btrfs, and coredump to using kmalloc_size_roundup(), add more __alloc_size attributes, and introduce full testing of all allocator functions. Finally remove the ksize() side-effect so that each allocation-aware checker can finally behave without exceptions - Introduce oops_limit (default 10,000) and warn_limit (default off) to provide greater granularity of control for panic_on_oops and panic_on_warn (Jann Horn, Kees Cook) - Introduce overflows_type() and castable_to_type() helpers for cleaner overflow checking - Improve code generation for strscpy() and update str*() kern-doc - Convert strscpy and sigphash tests to KUnit, and expand memcpy tests - Always use a non-NULL argument for prepare_kernel_cred() - Disable structleak plugin in FORTIFY KUnit test (Anders Roxell) - Adjust orphan linker section checking to respect CONFIG_WERROR (Xin Li) - Make sure siginfo is cleared for forced SIGKILL (haifeng.xu) - Fix um vs FORTIFY warnings for always-NULL arguments * tag 'hardening-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (31 commits) ksmbd: replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members hpet: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member um: virt-pci: Avoid GCC non-NULL warning signal: Initialize the info in ksignal lib: fortify_kunit: build without structleak plugin panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs panic: Introduce warn_limit panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops panic: Separate sysctl logic from CONFIG_SMP mm/pgtable: Fix multiple -Wstringop-overflow warnings mm: Make ksize() a reporting-only function kunit/fortify: Validate __alloc_size attribute results drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid() drm/fsl-dcu: Fix return type of fsl_dcu_drm_connector_mode_valid() driver core: Add __alloc_size hint to devm allocators overflow: Introduce overflows_type() and castable_to_type() coredump: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-oops_count6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-warn_count6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst3
4 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-oops_count b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-oops_count
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..156cca9dbc96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-oops_count
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+What: /sys/kernel/oops_count
+Date: November 2022
+KernelVersion: 6.2.0
+Contact: Linux Kernel Hardening List <linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+ Shows how many times the system has Oopsed since last boot.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-warn_count b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-warn_count
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..08f083d2fd51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-warn_count
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+What: /sys/kernel/oops_count
+Date: November 2022
+KernelVersion: 6.2.0
+Contact: Linux Kernel Hardening List <linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+ Shows how many times the system has Warned since last boot.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 39e7a2d46e1e..659d7bc47d7b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -670,6 +670,15 @@ This is the default behavior.
an oops event is detected.
+oops_limit
+==========
+
+Number of kernel oopses after which the kernel should panic when
+``panic_on_oops`` is not set. Setting this to 0 disables checking
+the count. Setting this to 1 has the same effect as setting
+``panic_on_oops=1``. The default value is 10000.
+
+
osrelease, ostype & version
===========================
@@ -1526,6 +1535,16 @@ entry will default to 2 instead of 0.
2 Unprivileged calls to ``bpf()`` are disabled
= =============================================================
+
+warn_limit
+==========
+
+Number of kernel warnings after which the kernel should panic when
+``panic_on_warn`` is not set. Setting this to 0 disables checking
+the warning count. Setting this to 1 has the same effect as setting
+``panic_on_warn=1``. The default value is 0.
+
+
watchdog
========
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
index c9412eb85552..62f961610773 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ String Conversions
String Manipulation
-------------------
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fortify-string.h
+ :internal:
+
.. kernel-doc:: lib/string.c
:export: