Re: [PATCH] capabilities: fix sparse warning about __user access

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 01:35:35PM +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> The two syscalls for capget and capset are producing sparse warnings
> as sparse is thinking that the "struct __user_cap_data_struct" is marked
> user, which seems to be down to the declaration and typedef at the same
> time.
> 
> Fix the following warnings by splutting the struct declaration and then
> the user typedef into two:

I'm not a fan of making code changes to work around scanners'
shortcomings, mainly because eventually I assume the scanners
will learn to deal with it.

However, I don't like the all-in-one typedef+struct definition
either, so let's go with it :)

Paul, do you mind picking this up?

thanks,
-serge

> kernel/capability.c:191:35: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
> kernel/capability.c:191:35:    expected void const *from
> kernel/capability.c:191:35:    got struct __user_cap_data_struct [noderef] __user *
> kernel/capability.c:168:14: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:168:45: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:169:14: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:169:45: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:170:14: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:170:45: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:244:29: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> kernel/capability.c:244:29:    expected void *to
> kernel/capability.c:244:29:    got struct __user_cap_data_struct [noderef] __user ( * )[2]
> kernel/capability.c:247:42: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:247:64: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:248:42: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:248:64: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:249:42: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> kernel/capability.c:249:64: warning: dereference of noderef expression
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/capability.h | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
> index 3d61a0ae055d..5bb906098697 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
> @@ -41,11 +41,12 @@ typedef struct __user_cap_header_struct {
>  	int pid;
>  } __user *cap_user_header_t;
>  
> -typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct {
> +struct __user_cap_data_struct {
>          __u32 effective;
>          __u32 permitted;
>          __u32 inheritable;
> -} __user *cap_user_data_t;
> +};
> +typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct __user *cap_user_data_t;
>  
>  
>  #define VFS_CAP_REVISION_MASK	0xFF000000
> -- 
> 2.39.2