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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>2009-09-26 16:33:01 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-26 18:25:41 +0400
commit9f0cf4adb6aa0bfccf675c938124e68f7f06349d (patch)
tree2045a8fa0b207a8adb288eb144c593db7d1f2f0b /include/linux/compiler.h
parent704daf55c7297e727021063cb5d8ba1c55b84426 (diff)
downloadlinux-9f0cf4adb6aa0bfccf675c938124e68f7f06349d.tar.xz
x86: Use __builtin_object_size() to validate the buffer size for copy_from_user()
gcc (4.x) supports the __builtin_object_size() builtin, which reports the size of an object that a pointer point to, when known at compile time. If the buffer size is not known at compile time, a constant -1 is returned. This patch uses this feature to add a sanity check to copy_from_user(); if the target buffer is known to be smaller than the copy size, the copy is aborted and a WARNing is emitted in memory debug mode. These extra checks compile away when the object size is not known, or if both the buffer size and the copy length are constants. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090926143301.2c396b94@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 04fb5135b4e1..8e54108688f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -266,6 +266,10 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
# define __same_type(a, b) __builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(a), typeof(b))
#endif
+/* Compile time object size, -1 for unknown */
+#ifndef __compiletime_object_size
+# define __compiletime_object_size(obj) -1
+#endif
/*
* Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses. The compiler
* is also forbidden from reordering successive instances of ACCESS_ONCE(),