On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
-static void report_usercopy(unsigned long len, bool to_user, const char *type)
+int report_usercopy(const char *name, const char *detail, bool to_user,
+ unsigned long offset, unsigned long len)
{
- pr_emerg("kernel memory %s attempt detected %s '%s' (%lu bytes)\n",
+ pr_emerg("kernel memory %s attempt detected %s %s%s%s%s (offset %lu, size %lu)\n",
to_user ? "exposure" : "overwrite",
- to_user ? "from" : "to", type ? : "unknown", len);
+ to_user ? "from" : "to",
+ name ? : "unknown?!",
+ detail ? " '" : "", detail ? : "", detail ? "'" : "",
+ offset, len);
/*
* For greater effect, it would be nice to do do_group_exit(),
* but BUG() actually hooks all the lock-breaking and per-arch
* Oops code, so that is used here instead.
*/
BUG();
Should this be a WARN() or so? Or some configuration that changes
BUG() behavior? Otherwise
+
+ return -1;
This return code will never be returned.
Why a return code at all? Maybe I will see that in the following patches?