5d299f44d7
In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
field array bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(),
avoid intentionally writing across neighboring fields.
Introduce more unions to cover the full inline data section, so that the
entire 256 bytes can be addressed by memcpy() without thinking it is
crossing field boundaries. Additionally adjusts dir memcpy() to use
existing union names to get the same coverage.
diffoscope shows there are no binary differences before/after excepting
the name of the initcall, which is line number based:
$ diffoscope --exclude-directory-metadata yes before/fs after/fs
--- before/fs
+++ after/fs
│ --- before/fs/jfs
├── +++ after/fs/jfs
│ │ --- before/fs/jfs/super.o
│ ├── +++ after/fs/jfs/super.o
│ │ ├── readelf --wide --symbols {}
│ │ │ @@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
│ │ │ Symbol table '.symtab' contains 158 entries:
│ │ │ Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
...
│ │ │ - 5: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 6 __initcall__kmod_jfs__319_1049_ini
t_jfs_fs6
│ │ │ + 5: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 6 __initcall__kmod_jfs__319_1050_ini
t_jfs_fs6
...
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
============
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.
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.