On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 09:56:51PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 10:39:52PM +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
>
> > There are several more or less bad/good solutions, like:
> > * add raw_copy_{to,from}_user() in the list of checked function
> > (not inlined in most archs).
> > * add a new annotation to force sparse to check the byte count
> > (I'm thinking about __range__/OP_RANGE or something similar).
> > * do these checks before functions are inlined (but then some
> > constant count could not yet be seen as constant).
> * just spell it out in copy_to_user() itself - as in
> #ifdef C_T_U_SIZE_LIMIT
> if (__builtin_constant_p(count) && count > C_T_U_SIZE_LIMIT)
> /* something warning-triggering */
> #endif
> in the beginning of copy_from_user(). Or simply
> #ifdef C_T_U_SIZE_LIMIT
> BUILD_BUG_ON(__builtin_constant_p(count) && count > C_T_U_SIZE_LIMIT);
> #endif
> in there...
Yes, I agree.
-- Luc
