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Message-ID: <202009101216.1F173BD87D@keescook>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:16:55 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Elena Petrova <lenaptr@...gle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched.h: drop in_ubsan field when UBSAN is in trap mode
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Elena Petrova wrote:
> in_ubsan field of task_struct is only used in lib/ubsan.c, which in its
> turn is used only `ifneq ($(CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP),y)`.
>
> Removing unnecessary field from a task_struct will help preserve the
> ABI between vanilla and CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP'ed kernels. In particular,
> this will help enabling bounds sanitizer transparently for Android's
> GKI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Elena Petrova <lenaptr@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
(This should be CCed to akpm who has been taking most of the ubsan
patches lately.)
--
Kees Cook
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