Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: remove HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR

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On 5/23/23 09:42, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 09:31:36AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> With SLOB removed, both remaining allocators support hardened usercopy,
>> so remove the config and associated #ifdef.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  mm/Kconfig       | 2 --
>>  mm/slab.h        | 9 ---------
>>  security/Kconfig | 8 --------
>>  3 files changed, 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
>> index 7672a22647b4..041f0da42f2b 100644
>> --- a/mm/Kconfig
>> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
>> @@ -221,7 +221,6 @@ choice
>>  config SLAB
>>  	bool "SLAB"
>>  	depends on !PREEMPT_RT
>> -	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
>>  	help
>>  	  The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
>>  	  well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
>> @@ -229,7 +228,6 @@ config SLAB
>>
>>  config SLUB
>>  	bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
>> -	select HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
>>  	help
>>  	   SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
>>  	   instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
>> diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
>> index f01ac256a8f5..695ef96b4b5b 100644
>> --- a/mm/slab.h
>> +++ b/mm/slab.h
>> @@ -832,17 +832,8 @@ struct kmem_obj_info {
>>  void __kmem_obj_info(struct kmem_obj_info *kpp, void *object, struct slab *slab);
>>  #endif
>>
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR
>>  void __check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
>>  			 const struct slab *slab, bool to_user);
>> -#else
>> -static inline
>> -void __check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
>> -			 const struct slab *slab, bool to_user)
>> -{
>> -}
>> -#endif
> 
> Hm, this is still defined in slab.c/slub.c and invoked in usercopy.c, do we
> not want the prototype?

Well I didn't delete the prototype, just the ifdef/else around, so now it's
there unconditionally.

> Perhaps replacing with #ifdef
> CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY instead? I may be missing something here :)

Putting it under that #ifdef would work and match that the implementations
of that function are under that same ifdef, but maybe it's unnecessary noise
in the header?





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