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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2021-08-18 10:48:55 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-08-18 22:28:51 +0200
commite6d468d32cd084edd030a8bae76440b17b854b5c (patch)
treee31a1277a3770907f2b290fea8713d3d31380b03 /drivers/misc
parentb8661450bc7f1f3dd746f8cac48534e0dfdc1cdf (diff)
lkdtm/heap: Avoid __alloc_size hint warning for VMALLOC_LINEAR_OVERFLOW
Once __alloc_size hints have been added, the compiler will (correctly!) see this as an overflow. We are, however, trying to test for this condition at run-time (not compile-time), so work around it with a volatile int offset. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818174855.2307828-5-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
index 3d9aae5821a0..8a92f5a800fa 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ static struct kmem_cache *a_cache;
static struct kmem_cache *b_cache;
/*
+ * Using volatile here means the compiler cannot ever make assumptions
+ * about this value. This means compile-time length checks involving
+ * this variable cannot be performed; only run-time checks.
+ */
+static volatile int __offset = 1;
+
+/*
* If there aren't guard pages, it's likely that a consecutive allocation will
* let us overflow into the second allocation without overwriting something real.
*/
@@ -24,7 +31,7 @@ void lkdtm_VMALLOC_LINEAR_OVERFLOW(void)
two = vzalloc(PAGE_SIZE);
pr_info("Attempting vmalloc linear overflow ...\n");
- memset(one, 0xAA, PAGE_SIZE + 1);
+ memset(one, 0xAA, PAGE_SIZE + __offset);
vfree(two);
vfree(one);