[tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Warn on future overlapping memcpy() use
From: tip-bot for Kees Cook
Date: Tue May 03 2016 - 03:48:09 EST
Commit-ID: 00ec2c37031eb1b1feda006c84748d126dc2ef27
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/00ec2c37031eb1b1feda006c84748d126dc2ef27
Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 2 May 2016 15:51:01 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 3 May 2016 08:15:58 +0200
x86/boot: Warn on future overlapping memcpy() use
If an overlapping memcpy() is ever attempted, we should at least report
it, in case it might lead to problems, so it could be changed to a
memmove() call instead.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462229461-3370-3-git-send-email-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
index faa4dc7..cea140c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#include "../string.c"
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+static void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
{
int d0, d1, d2;
asm volatile(
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
return dest;
}
#else
-void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+static void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
{
long d0, d1, d2;
asm volatile(
@@ -55,10 +55,20 @@ void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
const unsigned char *s = src;
if (d <= s || d - s >= n)
- return memcpy(dest, src, n);
+ return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
while (n-- > 0)
d[n] = s[n];
return dest;
}
+
+/* Detect and warn about potential overlaps, but handle them with memmove. */
+void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+{
+ if (dest > src && dest - src < n) {
+ warn("Avoiding potentially unsafe overlapping memcpy()!");
+ return memmove(dest, src, n);
+ }
+ return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
+}