Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 7 authors, 2019-11-21

Re: [Cocci] [PATCH] net: Zeroing the structure ethtool_wolinfo in ethtool_get_wol()

From: Julia Lawall <hidden>
Date: 2019-11-21 20:40:51
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 03:07:33PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:19:17PM +0100, Michal Kubecek wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:23:34AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
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On 26.10.19 21:40, Joe Perches wrote:
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On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 15:54 +0800, zhanglin wrote:
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memset() the structure ethtool_wolinfo that has padded bytes
but the padded bytes have not been zeroed out.
[]
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diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
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@@ -1471,11 +1471,13 @@ static int ethtool_reset(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr)

 static int ethtool_get_wol(struct net_device *dev, char __user *useraddr)
 {
-	struct ethtool_wolinfo wol = { .cmd = ETHTOOL_GWOL };
+	struct ethtool_wolinfo wol;

 	if (!dev->ethtool_ops->get_wol)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

+	memset(&wol, 0, sizeof(struct ethtool_wolinfo));
+	wol.cmd = ETHTOOL_GWOL;
 	dev->ethtool_ops->get_wol(dev, &wol);

 	if (copy_to_user(useraddr, &wol, sizeof(wol)))
It seems likely there are more of these.

Is there any way for coccinelle to find them?
Just curios: is static struct initialization (on stack) something that
should be avoided ? I've been under the impression that static
initialization allows thinner code and gives the compiler better chance
for optimizations.
Not in general. The (potential) problem here is that the structure has
padding and it is as a whole (i.e. including the padding) copied to
userspace. While I'm not aware of a compiler that wouldn't actually
initialize the whole data block including the padding in this case, the
C standard provides no guarantee about that so that to be sure we cannot
leak leftover kernel data to userspace, we need to explicitly initialize
the whole block.
GCC will not always initialize the struct holes.  This patch fixes a
real bug that GCC on my system (v7.4)
Just checked (again) to be sure. No matter if the function is inlined or
not, gcc 7.4.1 initializes the structure by one movl (of 0x5) and two
movq (of 0x0), i.e. initializes all sizeof(struct ethtool_wolinfo) = 20
bytes including the padding.

One could certainly construct examples where a real life compiler would
only initialize the fields. That's why I said "in this case".
Looking again at the case that I mentioned, I see:

# drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_kms.c:691:          struct drm_amdgpu_info_device dev_info = {};
        call    __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc        #
        leaq    840(%rsp), %rdi #, tmp1126
        xorl    %eax, %eax      # tmp1127
        movl    $46, %ecx       #, tmp1128
        rep stosq

So I guess the rep stosq is doing the memset.

julia
Michal Kubecek


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