From: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 16:03:15 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: uaccess: add copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() helpers
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uaccess: add copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() helpers

These are similar to copy_struct_{from,to}_user() but operate
on kernel buffers instead of user buffers.

They can be used when there is a temporary bounce buffer used,
e.g. in msg_control or similar places.

It allows us to have the same logic to handle old vs. current
and current vs. new structures in the same compatible way.

copy_struct_from_sockptr() will also be able to
use copy_struct_from_bounce_buffer() for the kernel
case as follow us patch.

I'll use this in my IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT work,
but maybe it will also be useful for others...
IPPROTO_QUIC will likely also use it.

Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Cc: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@arista.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co>
Cc: David Wei <dw@davidwei.uk>
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f29570914590c50b9b6f451eb3a38d0fe1d954df.1775576651.git.metze@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
index 09a09cc4aac27..e4a64976f1c59 100644
--- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -518,6 +518,69 @@ copy_struct_to_user(void __user *dst, size_t usize, const void *src,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static __always_inline void
+__copy_struct_generic_bounce_buffer(void *dst, size_t dstsize,
+				    const void *src, size_t srcsize,
+				    bool *ignored_trailing)
+{
+	size_t size = min(dstsize, srcsize);
+	size_t rest = max(dstsize, srcsize) - size;
+
+	/* Deal with trailing bytes. */
+	if (dstsize > srcsize)
+		memset(dst + size, 0, rest);
+	if (ignored_trailing)
+		*ignored_trailing = dstsize < srcsize &&
+			memchr_inv(src + size, 0, rest) != NULL;
+	/* Copy the interoperable parts of the struct. */
+	memcpy(dst, src, size);
+}
+
+/**
+ * This is like copy_struct_from_user(), but the
+ * src buffer was already copied into a kernel
+ * bounce buffer, so it will never return -EFAULT.
+ */
+static __always_inline __must_check int
+copy_struct_from_bounce_buffer(void *dst, size_t dstsize,
+			       const void *src, size_t srcsize)
+{
+	bool ignored_trailing;
+
+	/* Double check if ksize is larger than a known object size. */
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(dstsize > __builtin_object_size(dst, 1)))
+		return -E2BIG;
+
+	__copy_struct_generic_bounce_buffer(dst, dstsize,
+					    src, srcsize,
+					    &ignored_trailing);
+	if (unlikely(ignored_trailing))
+		return -E2BIG;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * This is like copy_struct_to_user(), but the
+ * dst buffer is a kernel bounce buffer instead
+ * of a direct userspace buffer, so it will never return -EFAULT.
+ */
+static __always_inline __must_check int
+copy_struct_to_bounce_buffer(void *dst, size_t dstsize,
+			     const void *src,
+			     size_t srcsize,
+			     bool *ignored_trailing)
+{
+	/* Double check if srcsize is larger than a known object size. */
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(srcsize > __builtin_object_size(src, 1)))
+		return -E2BIG;
+
+	__copy_struct_generic_bounce_buffer(dst, dstsize,
+					    src, srcsize,
+					    ignored_trailing);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 bool copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed(const void *unsafe_src, size_t size);
 
 long copy_from_kernel_nofault(void *dst, const void *src, size_t size);