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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: glider@google.com, tkjos@google.com, keescook@chromium.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, arve@android.com, mingo@redhat.com
Cc: dvyukov@google.com, jannh@google.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] binder: do not initialize locals passed to copy_from_user()
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:09:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0eaac427354844a4fcfb0d9843cf3024c6af21df.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200302130430.201037-2-glider@google.com>

On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 14:04 +0100, glider@google.com wrote:
> Certain copy_from_user() invocations in binder.c are known to
> unconditionally initialize locals before their first use, like e.g. in
> the following case:
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
[]
> @@ -3788,7 +3788,7 @@ static int binder_thread_write(struct binder_proc *proc,
>  
>  		case BC_TRANSACTION_SG:
>  		case BC_REPLY_SG: {
> -			struct binder_transaction_data_sg tr;
> +			struct binder_transaction_data_sg tr __no_initialize;
>  
>  			if (copy_from_user(&tr, ptr, sizeof(tr)))

I fail to see any value in marking tr with __no_initialize
when it's immediately written to by copy_from_user.

>  				return -EFAULT;
> @@ -3799,7 +3799,7 @@ static int binder_thread_write(struct binder_proc *proc,
>  		}
>  		case BC_TRANSACTION:
>  		case BC_REPLY: {
> -			struct binder_transaction_data tr;
> +			struct binder_transaction_data tr __no_initialize;
>  
>  			if (copy_from_user(&tr, ptr, sizeof(tr)))

etc...



  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-02 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-02 13:04 [PATCH v2 1/3] compiler.h: define __no_initialize glider
2020-03-02 13:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] binder: do not initialize locals passed to copy_from_user() glider
2020-03-02 13:09   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-03-02 13:25     ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-03-02 13:52       ` Dan Carpenter
2020-03-02 13:58       ` Joe Perches
2020-03-02 18:17         ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-03-02 18:31           ` Jann Horn
2020-03-05  9:03             ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-03-05 12:45               ` Jann Horn
2020-03-06  2:29               ` Al Viro
2020-03-02 18:50           ` Joe Perches
2020-03-03  9:14             ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-03-03  9:38               ` Dan Carpenter
2020-03-03 13:56                 ` Joe Perches
2020-03-03 14:15                   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-03-04 18:13                 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-05  8:07                   ` Dan Carpenter
2020-03-05  8:26                     ` Kees Cook
2020-03-05  8:33                       ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-03-02 17:38   ` Greg KH
2020-03-02 18:28     ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-03-02 13:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] sched/wait: avoid double initialization in ___wait_event() glider
2020-03-02 16:56   ` Todd Kjos
2020-03-02 18:03     ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-03-02 18:39       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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