Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 02:56:04PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Under CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY, this adds object size checking to the
> SLUB allocator to catch any copies that may span objects. Includes a
> redzone handling fix from Michael Ellerman.
> 
> Based on code from PaX and grsecurity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  init/Kconfig |  1 +
>  mm/slub.c    | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 798c2020ee7c..1c4711819dfd 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -1765,6 +1765,7 @@ config SLAB
>  
>  config SLUB
>  	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
> +	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR

Should this patch come in earlier from a build perspective? I think
patch 1 introduces and uses __check_heap_object.

Balbir Singh.

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