Re: [PATCH 18/20] objtool: Add UACCESS validation

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 15:33:55 EST


On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 11:15:42PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
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>
> On 3/7/19 8:41 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:33:26AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:52 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> XXX: are we sure we want __memset marked AC-safe?
> >>
> >> It's certainly one of the safer functions to call with AC set, but it
> >> sounds wrong anyway. It's not like it's likely to leak kernel data
> >> (most memset's are with 0, and even the non-zero ones I can't imagine
> >> are sensitive - more like poison values etc).
> >>
> >> What's the call site that made you go "just add __memset() to the list"?
> >
> > __asan_{,un}poinson_stack_memory()
>
> These two can be called only with CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA=y which
> was removed very recently, so it should be safe to delete these functions.

Ooh shiny. Clearly my tree still has them; what commit do I need to look
for?