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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2022-09-29 02:24:53 -0700
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2022-11-01 10:04:51 -0700
commit9e4a617757273a86b560c1ece40c48e4940a3c79 (patch)
tree324f6fc68db62db7baeef3adc173ae50862ebf1e /include/linux/string.h
parent96fce387d58fa8eae6e8d9b1ecdfbc18292d7a68 (diff)
string: Add __realloc_size hint to kmemdup()
Add __realloc_size() hint to kmemdup() so the compiler can reason about the length of the returned buffer. (These must not use __alloc_size, since those include __malloc which says the contents aren't defined[1]). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/d199c2af-06af-8a50-a6a1-00eefa0b67b4@prevas.dk/ Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/string.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index cf7607b32102..db28802ab0a6 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ extern void kfree_const(const void *x);
extern char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp) __malloc;
extern const char *kstrdup_const(const char *s, gfp_t gfp);
extern char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
-extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
+extern void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) __realloc_size(2);
extern char *kmemdup_nul(const char *s, size_t len, gfp_t gfp);
extern char **argv_split(gfp_t gfp, const char *str, int *argcp);