[PATCH 2/2] mm/uaccess: Use unsigned long

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Apr 24 2019 - 03:24:14 EST


Randy reported objtool triggered on his (GCC-7.4) build:

lib/strncpy_from_user.o: warning: objtool: strncpy_from_user()+0x315: call to __ubsan_handle_add_overflow() with UACCESS enabled
lib/strnlen_user.o: warning: objtool: strnlen_user()+0x337: call to __ubsan_handle_sub_overflow() with UACCESS enabled

This is due to UBSAN generating signed-overflow-UB warnings where it
should not. Prior to GCC-8 UBSAN ignored -fwrapv (which the kernel
uses through -fno-strict-overflow).

Make the functions use 'unsigned long' throughout.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> # build-tested
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/strncpy_from_user.c | 5 +++--
lib/strnlen_user.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
+++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@
* hit it), 'max' is the address space maximum (and we return
* -EFAULT if we hit it).
*/
-static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count, unsigned long max)
+static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src,
+ unsigned long count, unsigned long max)
{
const struct word_at_a_time constants = WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS;
- long res = 0;
+ unsigned long res = 0;

/*
* Truncate 'max' to the user-specified limit, so that
--- a/lib/strnlen_user.c
+++ b/lib/strnlen_user.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
static inline long do_strnlen_user(const char __user *src, unsigned long count, unsigned long max)
{
const struct word_at_a_time constants = WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS;
- long align, res = 0;
+ unsigned long align, res = 0;
unsigned long c;

/*
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static inline long do_strnlen_user(const
* Do everything aligned. But that means that we
* need to also expand the maximum..
*/
- align = (sizeof(long) - 1) & (unsigned long)src;
+ align = (sizeof(unsigned long) - 1) & (unsigned long)src;
src -= align;
max += align;