Re: [PATCH 0/9] mm: Hardened usercopy

On Jul 6, 2016 6:25 PM, "Kees Cook" [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

This is a start of the mainline port of PAX_USERCOPY[1]. After I started
writing tests (now in lkdtm in -next) for Casey's earlier port[2], I
kept tweaking things further and further until I ended up with a whole
new patch series. To that end, I took Rik's feedback and made a number
of other changes and clean-ups as well.

I like the series, but I have one minor nit to pick.  The effect of
this series is to harden usercopy, but most of the code is really
about infrastructure to validate that a pointed-to object is valid.
Might it make sense to call the infrastructure part something else?
After all, this could be extended in the future for memcpy or even for
some GCC plugin to check pointers passed to ordinary (non-allocator)
functions.