From: David Windsor <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
vfs pathnames stored internally in inodes and contained in
the names_cache slab cache need to be copied to/from userspace.
In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines the entire
cache object in the names_cache slab cache as whitelisted, since
it holds name strings to be copied to userspace.
This patch is verbatim from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.
Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[kees: adjust commit log]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index cddf39777835..f7f3c4114baa 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -3616,8 +3616,8 @@ void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void)
void __init vfs_caches_init(void)
{
- names_cachep = kmem_cache_create("names_cache", PATH_MAX, 0,
- SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+ names_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("names_cache", PATH_MAX, 0,
+ SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, 0, PATH_MAX, NULL);
dcache_init();
inode_init();
--
2.7.4
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