Re: [PATCH 5.17-rc1 v2] eeprom: at25: Restore missing allocation

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Kees,

Thanks for your patch!

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:33 AM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> The at25 driver regressed in v5.17-rc1 due to a broken conflict
> resolution: the allocation of the object was accidentally removed. Restore
> it.
>
> This was found when building under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y and
> -Warray-bounds, which complained about strncpy() being used against an
> empty object:
>
> In function 'strncpy',
>     inlined from 'at25_fw_to_chip.constprop' at drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c:312:2:
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:48:33: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' offset [0, 9] is out of the bounds [0, 0] [-Warray-bounds]
>    48 | #define __underlying_strncpy    __builtin_strncpy
>       |                                 ^
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:59:16: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_strncpy'
>    59 |         return __underlying_strncpy(p, q, size);
>       |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In function 'strncpy',
>     inlined from 'at25_fram_to_chip' at drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c:373:2,
>     inlined from 'at25_probe' at drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c:453:10:
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:48:33: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' offset [0, 9] is out of the bounds [0, 0] [-Warray-bounds]
>    48 | #define __underlying_strncpy    __builtin_strncpy
>       |                                 ^
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:59:16: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_strncpy'
>    59 |         return __underlying_strncpy(p, q, size);
>       |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On real hardware:

    Unable to handle kernel access to user memory outside uaccess
routines at virtual address 0000000000000028
    ...
    pc : __mutex_init+0x20/0x68
    lr : at25_probe+0x8c/0x4d8


> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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