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<updated>2015-11-11T00:32:11Z</updated>
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<title>lib/string.c: add ULL suffix to the constant definition</title>
<updated>2015-11-11T00:32:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2015-11-10T22:45:14Z</published>
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8-byte constant is too big for long and compiler complains about this.

  lib/string.c:907:20: warning: constant 0x0101010101010101 is so big it is long

Append ULL suffix to explicitly show its type.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>strscpy: zero any trailing garbage bytes in the destination</title>
<updated>2015-10-06T18:53:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-06T16:37:41Z</published>
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It's possible that the destination can be shadowed in userspace
(as, for example, the perf buffers are now).  So we should take
care not to leak data that could be inspected by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>string: provide strscpy()</title>
<updated>2015-09-10T19:36:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-29T16:52:04Z</published>
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The strscpy() API is intended to be used instead of strlcpy(),
and instead of most uses of strncpy().

- Unlike strlcpy(), it doesn't read from memory beyond (src + size).

- Unlike strlcpy() or strncpy(), the API provides an easy way to check
  for destination buffer overflow: an -E2BIG error return value.

- The provided implementation is robust in the face of the source
  buffer being asynchronously changed during the copy, unlike the
  current implementation of strlcpy().

- Unlike strncpy(), the destination buffer will be NUL-terminated
  if the string in the source buffer is too long.

- Also unlike strncpy(), the destination buffer will not be updated
  beyond the NUL termination, avoiding strncpy's behavior of zeroing
  the entire tail end of the destination buffer.  (A memset() after
  the strscpy() can be used if this behavior is desired.)

- The implementation should be reasonably performant on all
  platforms since it uses the asm/word-at-a-time.h API rather than
  simple byte copy.  Kernel-to-kernel string copy is not considered
  to be performance critical in any case.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib/string.c: introduce strreplace()</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T00:00:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T22:02:22Z</published>
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Strings are sometimes sanitized by replacing a certain character (often
'/') by another (often '!').  In a few places, this is done the same way
Schlemiel the Painter would do it.  Others are slightly smarter but still
do multiple strchr() calls.  Introduce strreplace() to do this using a
single function call and a single pass over the string.

One would expect the return value to be one of three things: void, s, or
the number of replacements made.  I chose the fourth, returning a pointer
to the end of the string.  This is more likely to be useful (for example
allowing the caller to avoid a strlen call).

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib: make memzero_explicit more robust against dead store elimination</title>
<updated>2015-05-04T09:49:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-30T02:13:52Z</published>
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In commit 0b053c951829 ("lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead
of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR"), we made memzero_explicit() more robust in
case LTO would decide to inline memzero_explicit() and eventually
find out it could be elimiated as dead store.

While using barrier() works well for the case of gcc, recent efforts
from LLVMLinux people suggest to use llvm as an alternative to gcc,
and there, Stephan found in a simple stand-alone user space example
that llvm could nevertheless optimize and thus elimitate the memset().
A similar issue has been observed in the referenced llvm bug report,
which is regarded as not-a-bug.

Based on some experiments, icc is a bit special on its own, while it
doesn't seem to eliminate the memset(), it could do so with an own
implementation, and then result in similar findings as with llvm.

The fix in this patch now works for all three compilers (also tested
with more aggressive optimization levels). Arguably, in the current
kernel tree it's more of a theoretical issue, but imho, it's better
to be pedantic about it.

It's clearly visible with gcc/llvm though, with the below code: if we
would have used barrier() only here, llvm would have omitted clearing,
not so with barrier_data() variant:

  static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
  {
    memset(s, 0, count);
    barrier_data(s);
  }

  int main(void)
  {
    char buff[20];
    memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff));
    return 0;
  }

  $ gcc -O2 test.c
  $ gdb a.out
  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
   0x0000000000400400  &lt;+0&gt;: lea   -0x28(%rsp),%rax
   0x0000000000400405  &lt;+5&gt;: movq  $0x0,-0x28(%rsp)
   0x000000000040040e &lt;+14&gt;: movq  $0x0,-0x20(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400417 &lt;+23&gt;: movl  $0x0,-0x18(%rsp)
   0x000000000040041f &lt;+31&gt;: xor   %eax,%eax
   0x0000000000400421 &lt;+33&gt;: retq
  End of assembler dump.

  $ clang -O2 test.c
  $ gdb a.out
  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
   0x00000000004004f0  &lt;+0&gt;: xorps  %xmm0,%xmm0
   0x00000000004004f3  &lt;+3&gt;: movaps %xmm0,-0x18(%rsp)
   0x00000000004004f8  &lt;+8&gt;: movl   $0x0,-0x8(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400500 &lt;+16&gt;: lea    -0x18(%rsp),%rax
   0x0000000000400505 &lt;+21&gt;: xor    %eax,%eax
   0x0000000000400507 &lt;+23&gt;: retq
  End of assembler dump.

As gcc, clang, but also icc defines __GNUC__, it's sufficient to define
this in compiler-gcc.h only to be picked up. For a fallback or otherwise
unsupported compiler, we define it as a barrier. Similarly, for ecc which
does not support gcc inline asm.

Reference: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15495
Reported-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Tested-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: mancha security &lt;mancha1@zoho.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Charlebois &lt;charlebm@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Behan Webster &lt;behanw@converseincode.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<title>lib: memzero_explicit: use barrier instead of OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR</title>
<updated>2015-03-19T20:56:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>mancha security</name>
<email>mancha1@zoho.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-18T17:47:25Z</published>
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OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(), as defined when using gcc, is insufficient to
ensure protection from dead store optimization.

For the random driver and crypto drivers, calls are emitted ...

  $ gdb vmlinux
  (gdb) disassemble memzero_explicit
  Dump of assembler code for function memzero_explicit:
    0xffffffff813a18b0 &lt;+0&gt;:	push   %rbp
    0xffffffff813a18b1 &lt;+1&gt;:	mov    %rsi,%rdx
    0xffffffff813a18b4 &lt;+4&gt;:	xor    %esi,%esi
    0xffffffff813a18b6 &lt;+6&gt;:	mov    %rsp,%rbp
    0xffffffff813a18b9 &lt;+9&gt;:	callq  0xffffffff813a7120 &lt;memset&gt;
    0xffffffff813a18be &lt;+14&gt;:	pop    %rbp
    0xffffffff813a18bf &lt;+15&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

  (gdb) disassemble extract_entropy
  [...]
    0xffffffff814a5009 &lt;+313&gt;:	mov    %r12,%rdi
    0xffffffff814a500c &lt;+316&gt;:	mov    $0xa,%esi
    0xffffffff814a5011 &lt;+321&gt;:	callq  0xffffffff813a18b0 &lt;memzero_explicit&gt;
    0xffffffff814a5016 &lt;+326&gt;:	mov    -0x48(%rbp),%rax
  [...]

... but in case in future we might use facilities such as LTO, then
OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() is not sufficient to protect gcc from a possible
eviction of the memset(). We have to use a compiler barrier instead.

Minimal test example when we assume memzero_explicit() would *not* be
a call, but would have been *inlined* instead:

  static inline void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count)
  {
    memset(s, 0, count);
    &lt;foo&gt;
  }

  int main(void)
  {
    char buff[20];

    snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff) - 1, "test");
    printf("%s", buff);

    memzero_explicit(buff, sizeof(buff));
    return 0;
  }

With &lt;foo&gt; := OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR():

  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
  [...]
   0x0000000000400464 &lt;+36&gt;:	callq  0x400410 &lt;printf@plt&gt;
   0x0000000000400469 &lt;+41&gt;:	xor    %eax,%eax
   0x000000000040046b &lt;+43&gt;:	add    $0x28,%rsp
   0x000000000040046f &lt;+47&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

With &lt;foo&gt; := barrier():

  (gdb) disassemble main
  Dump of assembler code for function main:
  [...]
   0x0000000000400464 &lt;+36&gt;:	callq  0x400410 &lt;printf@plt&gt;
   0x0000000000400469 &lt;+41&gt;:	movq   $0x0,(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400471 &lt;+49&gt;:	movq   $0x0,0x8(%rsp)
   0x000000000040047a &lt;+58&gt;:	movl   $0x0,0x10(%rsp)
   0x0000000000400482 &lt;+66&gt;:	xor    %eax,%eax
   0x0000000000400484 &lt;+68&gt;:	add    $0x28,%rsp
   0x0000000000400488 &lt;+72&gt;:	retq
  End of assembler dump.

As can be seen, movq, movq, movl are being emitted inlined
via memset().

Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/13764/
Fixes: d4c5efdb9777 ("random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: mancha security &lt;mancha1@zoho.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6</title>
<updated>2015-02-14T17:47:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-14T17:47:01Z</published>
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 "Here is the crypto update for 3.20:

   - Added 192/256-bit key support to aesni GCM.
   - Added MIPS OCTEON MD5 support.
   - Fixed hwrng starvation and race conditions.
   - Added note that memzero_explicit is not a subsitute for memset.
   - Added user-space interface for crypto_rng.
   - Misc fixes"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (71 commits)
  crypto: tcrypt - do not allocate iv on stack for aead speed tests
  crypto: testmgr - limit IV copy length in aead tests
  crypto: tcrypt - fix buflen reminder calculation
  crypto: testmgr - mark rfc4106(gcm(aes)) as fips_allowed
  crypto: caam - fix resource clean-up on error path for caam_jr_init
  crypto: caam - pair irq map and dispose in the same function
  crypto: ccp - terminate ccp_support array with empty element
  crypto: caam - remove unused local variable
  crypto: caam - remove dead code
  crypto: caam - don't emit ICV check failures to dmesg
  hwrng: virtio - drop extra empty line
  crypto: replace scatterwalk_sg_next with sg_next
  crypto: atmel - Free memory in error path
  crypto: doc - remove colons in comments
  crypto: seqiv - Ensure that IV size is at least 8 bytes
  crypto: cts - Weed out non-CBC algorithms
  MAINTAINERS: add linux-crypto to hw random
  crypto: cts - Remove bogus use of seqiv
  crypto: qat - don't need qat_auth_state struct
  crypto: algif_rng - fix sparse non static symbol warning
  ...
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<entry>
<title>lib/string.c: improve strrchr()</title>
<updated>2015-02-14T05:21:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T22:36:44Z</published>
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Instead of potentially passing over the string twice in case c is not
found, just keep track of the last occurrence.  According to
bloat-o-meter, this also cuts the generated code by a third (54 vs 36
bytes).  Oh, and we get rid of those 7-space indented lines.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>lib/string.c: remove strnicmp()</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T23:02:15Z</published>
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Now that all in-tree users of strnicmp have been converted to
strncasecmp, the wrapper can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>lib: memzero_explicit: add comment for its usage</title>
<updated>2015-01-08T10:46:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-05T23:27:45Z</published>
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Lets improve the comment to add a note on when to use memzero_explicit()
for those not digging through the git logs. We don't want people to
pollute places with memzero_explicit() where it's not really necessary.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/4/190
Suggested-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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