Re: [PATCH] powernv/opal-prd: Silence memcpy() run-time false positive warnings

From
Jordan Niethe <hidden>
Date
2023-07-05 01:07:54
Reply to
Mahesh Salgaonkar, 2023-06-26

On 26/6/23 5:04 pm, Mahesh Salgaonkar wrote:
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opal_prd_msg_notifier extracts the opal prd message size from the message
header and uses it for allocating opal_prd_msg_queue_item that includes
the correct message size to be copied. However, while running under
CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y, it triggers following run-time warning:

[ 6458.234352] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field "&item->msg" at arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.c:355 (size 4)
[ 6458.234390] WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 660 at arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.c:355 opal_prd_msg_notifier+0x174/0x188 [opal_prd]
[...]
[ 6458.234709] NIP [c00800000e0c0e6c] opal_prd_msg_notifier+0x174/0x188 [opal_prd]
[ 6458.234723] LR [c00800000e0c0e68] opal_prd_msg_notifier+0x170/0x188 [opal_prd]
[ 6458.234736] Call Trace:
[ 6458.234742] [c0000002acb23c10] [c00800000e0c0e68] opal_prd_msg_notifier+0x170/0x188 [opal_prd] (unreliable)
[ 6458.234759] [c0000002acb23ca0] [c00000000019ccc0] notifier_call_chain+0xc0/0x1b0
[ 6458.234774] [c0000002acb23d00] [c00000000019ceac] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2c/0x40
[ 6458.234788] [c0000002acb23d20] [c0000000000d69b4] opal_message_notify+0xf4/0x2c0
[...]

Add a flexible array member to avoid false positive run-time warning.

Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
---
  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.c |    7 +++++--
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.c
index 113bdb151f687..9e2c4775f75f5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-prd.c
@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@
   */
  struct opal_prd_msg_queue_item {
  	struct list_head		list;
-	struct opal_prd_msg_header	msg;
+	union {
+		struct opal_prd_msg_header	msg;
+		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(__u8, msg_flex);
+	};
  };
  
  static struct device_node *prd_node;
@@ -352,7 +355,7 @@ static int opal_prd_msg_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
  	if (!item)
  		return -ENOMEM;
  
-	memcpy(&item->msg, msg->params, msg_size);
+	memcpy(&item->msg_flex, msg->params, msg_size);
This does silence the warning but it seems like we might be able to go a little further.

What about not adding that flex array to struct opal_prd_msg_queue_item, but adding one to struct opal_prd_msg. That is what the data format actually is.

So we'd have something like:


    struct opal_prd_msg  {

        struct opal_prd_msg_header hdr;

        char msg[];

    }


and change things to use that instead?

But that might be more trouble than it is worth, alternatively we can just do:

	item->msg = *hdr;
	memcpy((char *)item->msg + sizeof(*hdr), (char *)hdr + sizeof(*hdr), msg_size - sizeof(*hdr));

  
  	spin_lock_irqsave(&opal_prd_msg_queue_lock, flags);
  	list_add_tail(&item->list, &opal_prd_msg_queue);


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