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SubjectRe: [PATCH 18/20] objtool: Add UACCESS validation
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On March 7, 2019 10:48:13 AM PST, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:54:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:41 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>wrote:
>> > >
>> > > What's the call site that made you go "just add __memset() to the
>list"?
>> >
>> > __asan_{,un}poinson_stack_memory()
>> > kasan_{,un}poison_shadow()
>> > __memset()
>>
>> Ugh. I think I almost just agree with your decision to just let that
>> memset go unchecked.
>>
>> I'm not saying it's right, but it doesn't seem to be a fight worth
>fighting.
>
>One think I could do; is add a filter to each function and only allow
>__memset from the kasan code, and not from anywhere else.
>
>Another thing I need to look at is why objtool only found memset_orig
>(from __memset) but not memset_erms, which if I read the code right, is
>a possible alternative there.
>
>> Because AC vs KASAN in general ends up smelling like "not a fight
>> worth fighting" to me. You've done a herculean job, but..
>
>I know,.. I've been so close to doing that so many times, but it
>seems like defeat, esp. since I'm so close now :-)

___memset_kasan()?
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