Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: hal: Fix memcpy calls

From: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes.sorensen@gmail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
	Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: hal: Fix memcpy calls
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:25:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4051dcb-10dc-ff17-ec0b-6f51dccdb5bf@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37b195b700394e95aa8329afc9f60431@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On 9/30/19 4:18 PM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Denis Efremov
>> Sent: 30 September 2019 12:02
>> memcpy() in phy_ConfigBBWithParaFile() and PHY_ConfigRFWithParaFile() is
>> called with "src == NULL && len == 0". This is an undefined behavior.
> 
> I'm pretty certain it is well defined (to do nothing).

Well, technically you are right. However, UBSAN warns about passing NULL
to memcpy and from the formal point of view this is an undefined behavior [1].
There were a discussion [2] about interesting implication of assuming that
memcpy with 0 size and NULL pointer is fine. This could result in that compiler
assume that pointer is not NULL. However, this is not the case here since
this "if then" branch is a dead code in it's current form. I just find this
piece of code very funny regarding this patch [3].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5243012/is-it-guaranteed-to-be-safe-to-perform-memcpy0-0-0
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/syzkaller-netbsd-bugs/8B4CIKN0Xz8/wRvIUWxiAgAJ
[3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8f884e76cae65af65c6bec759a17cb0527c54a15#diff-a476c238511f9374c2f1b947fdaffbbcL2339

> 
>> Moreover this if pre-condition "pBufLen && (*pBufLen == 0) && !pBuf"
>> is constantly false because it is a nested if in the else brach, i.e.,
>> "if (cond) { ... } else { if (cond) {...} }". This patch alters the
>> if condition to check "pBufLen && pBuf" pointers are not NULL.
>>
> ...
>> ---
>> Not tested. I don't have the hardware. The fix is based on my guess.
>>
>>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_com_phycfg.c | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_com_phycfg.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_com_phycfg.c
>> index 6539bee9b5ba..0902dc3c1825 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_com_phycfg.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/hal_com_phycfg.c
>> @@ -2320,7 +2320,7 @@ int phy_ConfigBBWithParaFile(
>>  			}
>>  		}
>>  	} else {
>> -		if (pBufLen && (*pBufLen == 0) && !pBuf) {
>> +		if (pBufLen && pBuf) {
>>  			memcpy(pHalData->para_file_buf, pBuf, *pBufLen);
> 
> The existing code is clearly garbage.
> It only ever does memcpy(tgt, NULL, 0).
> 
> Under the assumption that the code has been tested the copy clearly isn't needed at all
> and can be deleted completely!
> 
> OTOH if the code hasn't been tested maybe the entire source file should be removed :-)
> 
> 	David
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