Re: [x86/uaccess] 5b710f34e1: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:75!

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> But PageSlab(page) should trip, returning __check_heap_object, which
>> for SLOB should just return NULL, skipping all the rest of the
>> checks...
>
> SLOB doesn't actually set that for all allocations.
>
> See "slob_alloc_node()", for example. It just returns a multi-order allocation.
>
> (See also kfree(), which uses PageSlab() to determine it it should do
> slob_free() or just free the pages directly).

Oooh, eww. Okay, that explains it. Alright, dropping all the
multi-page logic now...

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security