Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs. To further
restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates a way to
whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for copying to/from
userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access control. Slab caches
that are never exposed to userspace can declare no whitelist for their
objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to userspace via dynamic copy
operations. (Note, an implicit form of whitelisting is the use of constant
sizes in usercopy operations and get_user()/put_user(); these bypass
hardened usercopy checks since these sizes cannot change at runtime.)
lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
This updates the USERCOPY_HEAP_FLAG_* tests to USERCOPY_HEAP_WHITELIST_*,
since the final form of usercopy whitelisting ended up using an offset/size
window instead of the earlier proposed allocation flags.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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