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* [PATCH] platform/surface: Split memcpy() of struct ssam_event flexible array
@ 2022-09-27  0:40 Kees Cook
  2022-09-27  1:12 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2022-09-27  0:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Maximilian Luz
  Cc: Kees Cook, Hans de Goede, Mark Gross, platform-driver-x86,
	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.

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

Cc: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c b/drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c
index 44e317970557..50500e562963 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/surface/surface_acpi_notify.c
@@ -355,7 +355,8 @@ static u32 san_evt_bat_nf(struct ssam_event_notifier *nf,
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&work->work, san_evt_bat_workfn);
 	work->dev = d->dev;
 
-	memcpy(&work->event, event, sizeof(struct ssam_event) + event->length);
+	work->event = *event;
+	memcpy(work->event.data, event->data, event->length);
 
 	queue_delayed_work(san_wq, &work->work, delay);
 	return SSAM_NOTIF_HANDLED;
-- 
2.34.1


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