Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2021-07-30

Re: [PATCH 36/64] scsi: ibmvscsi: Avoid multi-field memset() overflow by aiming at srp

From: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
Date: 2021-07-30 18:16:55
Also in: dri-devel, linux-block, linux-hardening, linux-kbuild, linux-wireless, lkml, netdev

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On 7/27/21 6:39 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
Kees,
quoted
In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
neighboring fields.

Instead of writing beyond the end of evt_struct->iu.srp.cmd, target the
upper union (evt_struct->iu.srp) instead, as that's what is being wiped.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Orthogonal to your change, it wasn't immediately obvious to me that
SRP_MAX_IU_LEN was the correct length to use for an srp_cmd. However, I
traversed the nested unions and it does look OK.

For good measure I copied Tyrel and Brian.
LGTM

Acked-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
quoted
---
 drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
index e6a3eaaa57d9..7e8beb42d2d3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
@@ -1055,8 +1055,8 @@ static int ibmvscsi_queuecommand_lck(struct scsi_cmnd *cmnd,
 		return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY;
 
 	/* Set up the actual SRP IU */
+	memset(&evt_struct->iu.srp, 0x00, SRP_MAX_IU_LEN);
 	srp_cmd = &evt_struct->iu.srp.cmd;
-	memset(srp_cmd, 0x00, SRP_MAX_IU_LEN);
 	srp_cmd->opcode = SRP_CMD;
 	memcpy(srp_cmd->cdb, cmnd->cmnd, sizeof(srp_cmd->cdb));
 	int_to_scsilun(lun, &srp_cmd->lun);
  
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