Re: [PATCH] x86: uaccess: fix regression in unsafe_get_user

[Arthur Gautier <baloo@gandi.net>]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 04:21:06PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:05 AM Arthur Gautier <baloo@gandi.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 03:11:12PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 04:49:51PM +0000, Arthur Gautier wrote:
> > > > I did not receive neither the patch Andy provided, nor the comments made
> > > > on it. But I'd be happy to help and/or take over to fix those if someone could
> > > > send me both.
> > >
> > > Yes, please do, it seems Andy's busy. You can find the whole thread here:
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190215235901.23541-1-baloo@gandi.net/
> > >
> > > and you can download it in mbox format.
> > >
> > > Care to take Andy's patch, work in the comments I made to it, test it,
> > > write a commit message, i.e., productize it?
> > >
> > > So that we get this thing moving...
> > >
> > > Thx.
> > >
> >
> > Hello Boris,
> >
> > Thank you! But I believe this is the patch I sent, I know Andy sent a
> > patchset with two patches, I believe privately (not copied to a public
> > ML) to some of the recepients here. I got a copy of the second patch
> > but not the first one.
> >
> > I believe from discussions here, that comments have been made on those
> > patchset and because I was not Cc-ed on those patches, I do not have
> > neither the full patchset nor the comments.
> >
> > I cannot take over the work, nor finish the patchset.
> >
> > Would anyone have a copy of the thread and could send them my way?
> >
> 
> I forwarded it to you.
> 
> Here are the patches in git:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=task_size
> 
> it's "unaligned", "fix test sparse warning", optionally
> "strncpy_from_user: Zero any extra output bytes that get written",
> "uaccess: Add a selftest for strncpy_from_user()", and
> "strncpy_from_user: Don't overrun the input buffer onto the next page"
> 
> The basic summary is that Linus didn't like calling it bug fix, but it
> might be acceptable as an improvement.  I also thought that the
> KERNEL_DS oops was changed so it didn't trigger here.

Thank you so much!

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