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net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:38:50 +0000 (10:38 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:33:08 +0000 (09:33 +0100)
commit2edd8c192fd2c919fb5b3227ad584d331db1bf07
tree48977a8846b54297af6cd79dc57e19f179676387
parent209a8a5d57f99b5839e851c4b264263058f00b70
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning

[ Upstream commit f8f185e39b4de91bc5235e5be0d829bea69d9b06 ]

The call "skb_copy_from_linear_data(skb, inl + 1, spc)" triggers a FORTIFY
memcpy() warning on ppc64 platform:

In function ‘fortify_memcpy_chk’,
    inlined from ‘skb_copy_from_linear_data’ at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:4029:2,
    inlined from ‘build_inline_wqe’ at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c:722:4,
    inlined from ‘mlx4_en_xmit’ at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c:1066:3:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:513:25: error: call to ‘__write_overflow_field’ declared with
attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()?
[-Werror=attribute-warning]
  513 |                         __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Same behaviour on x86 you can get if you use "__always_inline" instead of
"inline" for skb_copy_from_linear_data() in skbuff.h

The call here copies data into inlined tx destricptor, which has 104
bytes (MAX_INLINE) space for data payload. In this case "spc" is known
in compile-time but the destination is used with hidden knowledge
(real structure of destination is different from that the compiler
can see). That cause the fortify warning because compiler can check
bounds, but the real bounds are different.  "spc" can't be bigger than
64 bytes (MLX4_INLINE_ALIGN), so the data can always fit into inlined
tx descriptor. The fact that "inl" points into inlined tx descriptor is
determined earlier in mlx4_en_xmit().

Avoid confusing the compiler with "inl + 1" constructions to get to past
the inl header by introducing a flexible array "data" to the struct so
that the compiler can see that we are not dealing with an array of inl
structs, but rather, arbitrary data following the structure. There are
no changes to the structure layout reported by pahole, and the resulting
machine code is actually smaller.

Reported-by: Josef Oskera <joskera@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230217094541.2362873-1-joskera@redhat.com
Fixes: f68f2ff91512 ("fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memcpy() at compile-time")
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230218183842.never.954-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c
include/linux/mlx4/qp.h