Kees Cook
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Under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, memcpy() will check the size of destination and source buffers. Defining kernel_headers_data as "char" would trip this check. Since these addresses are treated as byte arrays, define them as arrays (as done everywhere else). This was seen with: $ cat /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz >> /dev/null detected buffer overflow in memcpy kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:1027! ... RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0xf/0x20 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> ikheaders_read+0x45/0x50 [kheaders] kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x1a4/0x2f0 ... Bug: 254441685 Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230302112130.6e402a98@kernel.org/ Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com> Tested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Fixes: 43d8ce9d65a5 ("Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230302224946.never.243-kees@kernel.org (cherry picked from commit b69edab47f1da8edd8e7bfdf8c70f51a2a5d89fb) Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <joneslee@google.com> Change-Id: I73c7530b9c558c1c8dac5f8962dbc31c553c0be7
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.