Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] binder: create userspace-to-binder-buffer copy function

[Joel Fernandes]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:42 PM Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:45 AM Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> > > + * check_buffer() - verify that buffer/offset is safe to access
> > > + * @alloc: binder_alloc for this proc
> > > + * @buffer: binder buffer to be accessed
> > > + * @offset: offset into @buffer data
> > > + * @bytes: bytes to access from offset
> > > + *
> > > + * Check that the @offset/@bytes are within the size of the given
> > > + * @buffer and that the buffer is currently active and not freeable.
> > > + * Offsets must also be multiples of sizeof(u32). The kernel is
> >
> > In all callers of binder_alloc_copy_user_to_buffer, the alignment of offsets
> > is set to sizeof(void *). Then shouldn't this function check for sizeof(void *)
> > alignment instead of u32?
>
> But there are other callers of check_buffer() later in the series that
> don't require pointer-size alignment. u32 alignment is consistent with
> the alignment requirements of the binder driver before this change.
> The copy functions don't actually need to insist on alignment, but
> these binder buffer objects have always used u32 alignment which has
> been checked in the driver. If user code misaligned it, then errors
> are returned. The alignment checks are really to be consistent with
> previous binder driver behavior.

Got it, thanks.

 - Joel