Linus Torvalds
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Pull overflow updates from Kees Cook:
"This adds the new overflow checking helpers and adds them to the
2-factor argument allocators. And this adds the saturating size
helpers and does a treewide replacement for the struct_size() usage.
Additionally this adds the overflow testing modules to make sure
everything works.
I'm still working on the treewide replacements for allocators with
"simple" multiplied arguments:
*alloc(a * b, ...) -> *alloc_array(a, b, ...)
and
*zalloc(a * b, ...) -> *calloc(a, b, ...)
as well as the more complex cases, but that's separable from this
portion of the series. I expect to have the rest sent before -rc1
closes; there are a lot of messy cases to clean up.
Summary:
- Introduce arithmetic overflow test helper functions (Rasmus)
- Use overflow helpers in 2-factor allocators (Kees, Rasmus)
- Introduce overflow test module (Rasmus, Kees)
- Introduce saturating size helper functions (Matthew, Kees)
- Treewide use of struct_size() for allocators (Kees)"
* tag 'overflow-v4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
treewide: Use struct_size() for devm_kmalloc() and friends
treewide: Use struct_size() for vmalloc()-family
treewide: Use struct_size() for kmalloc()-family
device: Use overflow helpers for devm_kmalloc()
mm: Use overflow helpers in kvmalloc()
mm: Use overflow helpers in kmalloc_array*()
test_overflow: Add memory allocation overflow tests
overflow.h: Add allocation size calculation helpers
test_overflow: Report test failures
test_overflow: macrofy some more, do more tests for free
lib: add runtime test of check_*_overflow functions
compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and add fallback code
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