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authorEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>2016-08-19 12:15:22 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2016-08-22 19:07:55 -0700
commit7329a655875a2f4bd6984fe8a7e00a6981e802f3 (patch)
tree5c77614be62600da9d02d3b57709280e91e7292d /mm
parentef0e1ea8856bed6ff8394d3dfe77f2cab487ecea (diff)
downloadlinux-7329a655875a2f4bd6984fe8a7e00a6981e802f3.tar.gz
usercopy: avoid potentially undefined behavior in pointer math
check_bogus_address() checked for pointer overflow using this expression,
where 'ptr' has type 'const void *':

	ptr + n < ptr

Since pointer wraparound is undefined behavior, gcc at -O2 by default
treats it like the following, which would not behave as intended:

	(long)n < 0

Fortunately, this doesn't currently happen for kernel code because kernel
code is compiled with -fno-strict-overflow.  But the expression should be
fixed anyway to use well-defined integer arithmetic, since it could be
treated differently by different compilers in the future or could be
reported by tools checking for undefined behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/usercopy.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
index 8ebae91a6b55..82f81df2edcf 100644
--- a/mm/usercopy.c
+++ b/mm/usercopy.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static inline const char *check_kernel_text_object(const void *ptr,
 static inline const char *check_bogus_address(const void *ptr, unsigned long n)
 {
 	/* Reject if object wraps past end of memory. */
-	if (ptr + n < ptr)
+	if ((unsigned long)ptr + n < (unsigned long)ptr)
 		return "<wrapped address>";
 
 	/* Reject if NULL or ZERO-allocation. */