[PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Split memcpy of flex-array

* [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Split memcpy of flex-array
@ 2022-09-24  3:07 Kees Cook
  2022-09-24  3:42 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2022-09-27 20:46 ` Nathan Chancellor
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2022-09-24  3:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: K. Y. Srinivasan
  Cc: Kees Cook, Haiyang Zhang, Stephen Hemminger, Wei Liu, Dexuan Cui,
	linux-hyperv, Nathan Chancellor, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
	linux-kernel, linux-hardening

To work around a misbehavior of the compiler's ability to see into
composite flexible array structs (as detailed in the coming memcpy()
hardening series[1]), split the memcpy() of the header and the payload
so no false positive run-time overflow warning will be generated. As it
turns out, this appears to actually reduce the text size:

$ size drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o.before drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  22968    5239     232   28439    6f17 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o.before
  23032    5239     232   28503    6f57 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220901065914.1417829-2-keescook@chromium.org/

Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
index 23c680d1a0f5..9b111a8262e3 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
@@ -1131,7 +1131,8 @@ void vmbus_on_msg_dpc(unsigned long data)
 			return;
 
 		INIT_WORK(&ctx->work, vmbus_onmessage_work);
-		memcpy(&ctx->msg, &msg_copy, sizeof(msg->header) + payload_size);
+		ctx->msg.header = msg_copy.header;
+		memcpy(&ctx->msg.payload, msg_copy.u.payload, payload_size);
 
 		/*
 		 * The host can generate a rescind message while we
-- 
2.34.1


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