Re: [PATCH] mm: unexport globally copy_to_kernel_nofault

[Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov
<snovitoll@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> `copy_to_kernel_nofault()` is an internal helper which should not be
> visible to loadable modules – exporting it would give exploit code a
> cheap oracle to probe kernel addresses.  Instead, keep the helper
> un-exported and compile the kunit case that exercises it only when
> `mm/kasan/kasan_test.o` is linked into vmlinux.
>
> Fixes: ca79a00bb9a8 ("kasan: migrate copy_user_test to kunit")
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovitoll@gmail.com>
> ---
>  mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c | 4 ++++
>  mm/maccess.c            | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c b/mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c
> index 5f922dd38ffa..094ecd27b707 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c
> @@ -1977,6 +1977,7 @@ static void rust_uaf(struct kunit *test)
>         KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL(test, kasan_test_rust_uaf());
>  }
>
> +#ifndef MODULE

Would be great to have a comment here explaining the ifndef.

>  static void copy_to_kernel_nofault_oob(struct kunit *test)
>  {
>         char *ptr;
> @@ -2011,6 +2012,7 @@ static void copy_to_kernel_nofault_oob(struct kunit *test)
>
>         kfree(ptr);
>  }
> +#endif /* !MODULE */
>
>  static void copy_user_test_oob(struct kunit *test)
>  {
> @@ -2131,7 +2133,9 @@ static struct kunit_case kasan_kunit_test_cases[] = {
>         KUNIT_CASE(match_all_not_assigned),
>         KUNIT_CASE(match_all_ptr_tag),
>         KUNIT_CASE(match_all_mem_tag),
> +#ifndef MODULE
>         KUNIT_CASE(copy_to_kernel_nofault_oob),
> +#endif
>         KUNIT_CASE(rust_uaf),
>         KUNIT_CASE(copy_user_test_oob),
>         {}
> diff --git a/mm/maccess.c b/mm/maccess.c
> index 831b4dd7296c..486559d68858 100644
> --- a/mm/maccess.c
> +++ b/mm/maccess.c
> @@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ long copy_to_kernel_nofault(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size)
>         pagefault_enable();
>         return -EFAULT;
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_to_kernel_nofault);
>
>  long strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count)
>  {
> --
> 2.34.1
>

Other than that:

Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>

Thank you!