On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:31 PM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is needed so that CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN=y doesn't
> incorrectly report a buffer overflow when the destination of
> copy_from_iter() spans the page boundary in the 2-page buffer.
>
> Fixes: 3f47a03df6e8 ("crypto: testmgr - add testvec_config struct and helper functions")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> crypto/testmgr.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/crypto/testmgr.c b/crypto/testmgr.c
> index 0f6bfb6ce6a46..3522c0bed2492 100644
> --- a/crypto/testmgr.c
> +++ b/crypto/testmgr.c
> @@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ static int __testmgr_alloc_buf(char *buf[XBUFSIZE], int order)
> int i;
>
> for (i = 0; i < XBUFSIZE; i++) {
> - buf[i] = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
> + buf[i] = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COMP,
> + order);
Is there a reason __GFP_COMP isn't automatically included in all page
allocations? (Or rather, it seems like the exception is when things
should NOT be considered part of the same allocation, so something
like __GFP_SINGLE should exist?.)
-Kees
> if (!buf[i])
> goto err_free_buf;
> }
> --
> 2.21.0.392.gf8f6787159e-goog
>
--
Kees Cook
