Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, efi, kasan: #undef memset/memcpy/memmove per arch.

From: Leif Lindholm
Date: Fri Aug 28 2015 - 04:39:53 EST


On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:27:45AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > In not-instrumented code KASAN replaces instrumented
> > memset/memcpy/memmove with not-instrumented analogues
> > __memset/__memcpy/__memove.
> > However, on x86 EFI stub is not linked with kernel.
>
> s/with the kernel
>
> > It uses not-instrumented mem*() functions from
> > arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
> > So we don't replace them with __mem*() variants in EFI stub.
> >
> > In ARM64 EFI stub is linked with the kernel, so we should
>
> s/In ARM64 EFI stub/On ARM64 the EFI stub/.
>
> > replace mem*() functions with __mem*(), because EFI stub
>
> s/the EFI stub
>
> > runs before KASAN setup early shadow.
>
> s/before KASAN sets up the early shadow
>
> ?
>
> > So let's move these #undef mem* into arch's asm/efi.h which is
>
> s/lets

No, that one is actually correct. Abbreviation of let us.

> > also included by EFI stub.
>
> s/by the EFI stub
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 8 ++++++++
> > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 4 ----
> > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > index 155162e..d821ce2 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
> > @@ -25,6 +25,14 @@
> > #define EFI32_LOADER_SIGNATURE "EL32"
> > #define EFI64_LOADER_SIGNATURE "EL64"
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Use memcpy/memset from arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
> > + * for EFI stub.
> > + */
> > +#undef memcpy
> > +#undef memset
> > +#undef memmove
>
> This comment should also mention why it's done, not what is done.
>
> Also:
>
> s/for EFI stub/for the EFI stub
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
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