Re: [RFC v2] implement SL*B and stack usercopy runtime checks

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Jul 18 2011 - 17:18:15 EST


On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:

> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -3844,6 +3844,40 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
>
> /*
> + * Returns false if and only if [ptr; ptr+len) touches the slab,
> + * but breaks objects boundaries. It doesn't check whether the
> + * accessed object is actually allocated.
> + */
> +bool slab_access_ok(const void *ptr, unsigned long len)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> + struct kmem_cache *cachep = NULL;

Why = NULL?

> + struct slab *slabp;
> + unsigned int objnr;
> + unsigned long offset;
> +
> + if (!len)
> + return true;
> + if (!virt_addr_valid(ptr))
> + return true;
> + page = virt_to_head_page(ptr);
> + if (!PageSlab(page))
> + return true;
> +
> + cachep = page_get_cache(page);
> + slabp = page_get_slab(page);
> + objnr = obj_to_index(cachep, slabp, (void *)ptr);
> + BUG_ON(objnr >= cachep->num);
> + offset = (const char *)ptr - obj_offset(cachep) -
> + (const char *)index_to_obj(cachep, slabp, objnr);
> + if (offset <= obj_size(cachep) && len <= obj_size(cachep) - offset)
> + return true;
> +
> + return false;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(slab_access_ok);
> +
> +/*
> * This initializes kmem_list3 or resizes various caches for all nodes.
> */
> static int alloc_kmemlist(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfp)

> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2623,6 +2623,34 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_size);
>
> +/*
> + * Returns false if and only if [ptr; ptr+len) touches the slab,
> + * but breaks objects boundaries. It doesn't check whether the
> + * accessed object is actually allocated.
> + */
> +bool slab_access_ok(const void *ptr, unsigned long len)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> + struct kmem_cache *s = NULL;

No need to assign NULL.

> + unsigned long offset;
> +
> + if (len == 0)
> + return true;
> + if (!virt_addr_valid(ptr))
> + return true;
> + page = virt_to_head_page(ptr);
> + if (!PageSlab(page))
> + return true;
> +
> + s = page->slab;
> + offset = ((const char *)ptr - (const char *)page_address(page)) % s->size;

Are the casts necessary? Both are pointers to void *


> + if (offset <= s->objsize && len <= s->objsize - offset)

If offset == s->objsize then we access the first byte after the object.
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