Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:36:06 +0000 | From | Wei Liu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Split memcpy of flex-array |
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 02:17:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > To work around a misbehavior of the compiler's ability to see into > composite flexible array structs (as detailed in the coming memcpy() > hardening series[1]), split the memcpy() of the header and the payload > so no false positive run-time overflow warning will be generated. This > results in the already inlined memcpy getting unrolled a little more, > which very slightly increases text size: > > $ size drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o.before drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o > text data bss dec hex filename > 22968 5239 232 28439 6f17 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o.before > 23032 5239 232 28503 6f57 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o > > Avoids the run-time false-positive warning: > > memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 212) of single field "&ctx->msg" at drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c:1133 (size 16) > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220901065914.1417829-2-keescook@chromium.org/ > > Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> > Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> > Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> > Cc: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org > Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> > Reported-by: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> > Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Applied to hyperv-next. Thanks.
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