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[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 69/88] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Avoid false-positive memcpy() warning

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-09-10 00:52:43
Also in: lkml, platform-driver-x86
Subsystem: dell smbios wmi driver, the rest, x86 platform drivers · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Hans de Goede, Ilpo Järvinen

From: Kees Cook <redacted>

[ Upstream commit fb49d9946f96081f9a05d8f305b3f40285afe4a9 ]

In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
field bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid
intentionally writing across neighboring fields.

Since all the size checking has already happened, use input.pointer
(void *) so memcpy() doesn't get confused about how much is being
written.

Avoids this false-positive warning when run-time memcpy() strict
bounds checking is enabled:

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 4096) of single field (size 36)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 357 at drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c:74 run_smbios_call+0x110/0x1e0 [dell_smbios]

Cc: Hans de Goede <redacted>
Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mario Limonciello <redacted>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <redacted>
Cc: Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andy Lavr <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210825160749.3891090-1-keescook@chromium.org (local)
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c
index 33f823772733..01ea4bb958af 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int run_smbios_call(struct wmi_device *wdev)
 				obj->integer.value);
 		return -EIO;
 	}
-	memcpy(&priv->buf->std, obj->buffer.pointer, obj->buffer.length);
+	memcpy(input.pointer, obj->buffer.pointer, obj->buffer.length);
 	dev_dbg(&wdev->dev, "result: [%08x,%08x,%08x,%08x]\n",
 		priv->buf->std.output[0], priv->buf->std.output[1],
 		priv->buf->std.output[2], priv->buf->std.output[3]);
-- 
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