[PATCH 1/6] arm64, vdso: Define vdso_{start,end} as array

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Jun 06 2017 - 00:53:41 EST


Adjust vdso_{start|end} to be char arrays to avoid compile-time analysis
that flags "too large" memcmp() calls with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c
index 41b6e31f8f55..ae35f1855e06 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
#include <asm/vdso.h>
#include <asm/vdso_datapage.h>

-extern char vdso_start, vdso_end;
+extern char vdso_start[], vdso_end[];
static unsigned long vdso_pages __ro_after_init;

/*
@@ -125,14 +125,14 @@ static int __init vdso_init(void)
struct page **vdso_pagelist;
unsigned long pfn;

- if (memcmp(&vdso_start, "\177ELF", 4)) {
+ if (memcmp(vdso_start, "\177ELF", 4)) {
pr_err("vDSO is not a valid ELF object!\n");
return -EINVAL;
}

- vdso_pages = (&vdso_end - &vdso_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ vdso_pages = (vdso_end - vdso_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
pr_info("vdso: %ld pages (%ld code @ %p, %ld data @ %p)\n",
- vdso_pages + 1, vdso_pages, &vdso_start, 1L, vdso_data);
+ vdso_pages + 1, vdso_pages, vdso_start, 1L, vdso_data);

/* Allocate the vDSO pagelist, plus a page for the data. */
vdso_pagelist = kcalloc(vdso_pages + 1, sizeof(struct page *),
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static int __init vdso_init(void)


/* Grab the vDSO code pages. */
- pfn = sym_to_pfn(&vdso_start);
+ pfn = sym_to_pfn(vdso_start);

for (i = 0; i < vdso_pages; i++)
vdso_pagelist[i + 1] = pfn_to_page(pfn + i);
--
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