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Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN

From Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN
Date 2017-02-10 08:50 +0100
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On 02/09/2017 06:20 PM, Scott Bauer wrote:
> When CONFIG_KASAN is enabled, compilation fails:
> 
> block/sed-opal.c: In function 'sed_ioctl':
> block/sed-opal.c:2447:1: error: the frame size of 2256 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> 
> Moved all the ioctl structures off the stack and dynamically activate
> using _IOC_SIZE()
> 
> Fixes: 455a7b238cd6 ("block: Add Sed-opal library")
> 
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Bauer <scott.bauer@intel.com>
> ---
>  block/sed-opal.c | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
> 

[...]

> -		if (copy_from_user(&session, arg, sizeof(session)))
> -			return -EFAULT;
> -		return opal_erase_locking_range(dev, &session);
> +	ioctl_ptr = kzalloc(cmd_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!ioctl_ptr)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +	if (copy_from_user(ioctl_ptr, arg, cmd_size)) {
> +		ret = -EFAULT;
> +		goto out;
>  	}

Can't we use memdup_user() instead of kzalloc() + copy_from_user()?



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[PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN Scott Bauer <scott.bauer@intel.com> - 2017-02-09 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent  oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN Rafael Antognolli <rafael.antognolli@intel.com> - 2017-02-09 21:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent  oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> - 2017-02-10 08:50 +0100
    RE: [PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent  oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2017-02-10 11:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent  oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-02-10 12:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-02-10 09:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] Move stack parameters for sed_ioctl to prevent  oversized stack with CONFIG_KASAN Scott Bauer <scott.bauer@intel.com> - 2017-02-10 17:10 +0100

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