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usercopy: Disable CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN

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CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN has been mostly broken for a while,
and it has become hard to ignore with some recent scsi changes[1].
While there is a more complete series to replace it with better checks[2],
it should have more soak time in -next. Instead, disable the config now,
with the expectation that it will be fully replaced in the next kernel
release.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220324064846.GA12961@lst.de/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220110231530.665970-1-willy@infradead.org/

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook 2022-03-24 15:57:25 -07:00
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@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ config HARDENED_USERCOPY
config HARDENED_USERCOPY_PAGESPAN
bool "Refuse to copy allocations that span multiple pages"
depends on HARDENED_USERCOPY
depends on EXPERT
depends on BROKEN
help
When a multi-page allocation is done without __GFP_COMP,
hardened usercopy will reject attempts to copy it. There are,