Re: [PATCH] net: cxgb4: avoid memcpy beyond end of source buffer

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Fri,  2 Feb 2018 16:18:37 +0100

Building with link-time-optimizations revealed that the cxgb4 driver does
a fixed-size memcpy() from a variable-length constant string into the
network interface name:

In function 'memcpy',
    inlined from 'cfg_queues_uld.constprop' at drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_uld.c:335:2,
    inlined from 'cxgb4_register_uld.constprop' at drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_uld.c:719:9:
include/linux/string.h:350:3: error: call to '__read_overflow2' declared with attribute error: detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter
   __read_overflow2();
   ^

I can see two equally workable solutions: either we use a strncpy() instead
of the memcpy() to stop at the end of the input, or we make the source buffer
fixed length as well. This implements the latter.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Not the most pleasant thing in the world, but I can't think of a better
solution.

David Laight asked how this can be the sole part of the patch.

All of these structures are initialized like:

static struct cxgb4_uld_info {
	.name	= "foo",
	...
};

So changing from "const char *" to "char []" just works.