Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy fixes for v4.8-rc6-part2

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> - move page-spanning check behind a CONFIG since it's triggering false positives
>>
>> Hmm. I pulled this, but looking at it I realized that
>>
>> +       depends on !COMPILE_TEST
>>
>> doesn't make any real sense to me.
>>
>> All it does is make sure that "make allmodconfig" doesn't actually
>> test that the PAGESPAN code compiles.
>>
>> It's not like that is a big cost for allmodconfig builds, but it does
>> mean that it gets less coverage.
>>
>> And it really makes no sense to me. We *don't* want to run with that
>> option enabled normally.
>>
>> I think what you actually meant was something like
>>
>> +       depends on EXPERT
>>
>> which means that it does *not* get enabled in normal user builds.
>>
>> Hmm?
>
> I guess that's true -- I was trying to think of a way to make sure it
> didn't get tested by 0-day syscall fuzzer on a randconfig, since I
> didn't want the noise. But now that I double-check this, yeah, it
> looks like randconfig doesn't set COMPILE_TEST. Hmpf.
>
> I will send another patch to flip this to EXPERT, and if 0-day finds
> issues, I can add them to the __GPF_COMP hit-list. :P

Oh! Nevermind, I see you did that already. Thank you! :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security