Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, 2018-11-01

[PATCH] ARM: kprobes: Fix false positive with FORTIFY_SOURCE

From: mhiramat@kernel.org (Masami Hiramatsu)
Date: 2018-10-23 01:06:10
Also in: lkml

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 02:30:23 -0700
Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:
The arm compiler internally interprets an inline assembly label
as an unsigned long value, not a pointer. As a result, under
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, the size of the array pointed to by an address
of a label is 4 bytes, which was tripping the runtime checks. Instead,
we can just cast the label (as done with the size calculations earlier)
to avoid the problem.

Reported-by: William Cohen <redacted>
Fixes: 6974f0c4555e ("include/linux/string.h: add the option of fortified string.h functions")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Good catch! This looks good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Thank you,

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
index b2aa9b32bff2..2c118a6ab358 100644
--- a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ int arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op, struct kprobe *or
 	}
 
 	/* Copy arch-dep-instance from template. */
-	memcpy(code, &optprobe_template_entry,
+	memcpy(code, (unsigned char *)optprobe_template_entry,
 			TMPL_END_IDX * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
 
 	/* Adjust buffer according to instruction. */
-- 
2.17.1


-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu [off-list ref]
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