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SubjectRe: [PATCH] RDMA/cma: Distinguish between sockaddr_in and sockaddr_in6 by size
On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 03:25:53PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> Clang can do some aggressive inlining, which provides it with greater
> visibility into the sizes of various objects that are passed into
> helpers. Specifically, compare_netdev_and_ip() can see through the type
> given to the "sa" argument, which means it can generate code for "struct
> sockaddr_in" that would have been passed to ipv6_addr_cmp() (that expects
> to operate on the larger "struct sockaddr_in6"), which would result in a
> compile-time buffer overflow condition detected by memcmp(). Logically,
> this state isn't reachable due to the sa_family assignment two callers
> above and the check in compare_netdev_and_ip(). Instead, provide a
> compile-time check on sizes so the size-mismatched code will be elided
> when inlining. Avoids the following warning from Clang:
>
> ../include/linux/fortify-string.h:652:4: error: call to '__read_overflow' declared with 'error' attribute: detected read beyond size of object (1st parameter)
> __read_overflow();
> ^
> note: In function 'cma_netevent_callback'
> note: which inlined function 'node_from_ndev_ip'
> 1 error generated.
>
> When the underlying object size is not known (e.g. with GCC and older
> Clang), the result of __builtin_object_size() is SIZE_MAX, which
> will also compile away, leaving the code as it was originally.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1687
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Zhang <markzhang@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Patrisious Haddad <phaddad@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> # build
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

This seems hacky, but I guess I can see why it is unreasonable for the
compiler to track the sa_family in this case.

Applied to for next

Jason

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