Re: [PATCH v10 8/9] proc: use human-readable values for hidehid

From: Kees Cook
Date: Sat Mar 28 2020 - 17:53:01 EST


On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 10:14:53PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 01:28:28PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 06:23:30PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > + if (!kstrtouint(param->string, base, &result.uint_32)) {
> > > + ctx->hidepid = result.uint_32;
> >
> > This need to bounds-check the value with a call to valid_hidepid(), yes?
>
> The kstrtouint returns 0 on success and -ERANGE on overflow [1].

No, I mean, hidepid cannot be just any uint32 value. It must be in the
enum. Is that checked somewhere else? It looked like the call to
valid_hidepid() was removed.

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Kees Cook