From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@gmail.com>,
Sharvari Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@nxp.com>,
Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] wifi: mwifiex: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 19:34:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9xkjXeElSEQ0FPY@work> (raw)
One-element arrays are deprecated, and we are replacing them with flexible
array members instead. So, replace one-element array with flexible-array
member in struct mwifiex_ie_types_rates_param_set.
These are the only binary differences I see after the change:
mwifiex.o
_@@ -50154,7 +50154,7 @@
23514: R_X86_64_32S kmalloc_caches+0x50
23518: call 2351d <mwifiex_scan_networks+0x11d>
23519: R_X86_64_PLT32 __tsan_read8-0x4
- 2351d: mov $0x225,%edx
+ 2351d: mov $0x224,%edx
23522: mov $0xdc0,%esi
23527: mov 0x0(%rip),%rdi # 2352e <mwifiex_scan_networks+0x12e>
2352a: R_X86_64_PC32 kmalloc_caches+0x4c
scan.o
_@@ -5582,7 +5582,7 @@
4394: R_X86_64_32S kmalloc_caches+0x50
4398: call 439d <mwifiex_scan_networks+0x11d>
4399: R_X86_64_PLT32 __tsan_read8-0x4
- 439d: mov $0x225,%edx
+ 439d: mov $0x224,%edx
43a2: mov $0xdc0,%esi
43a7: mov 0x0(%rip),%rdi # 43ae <mwifiex_scan_networks+0x12e>
43aa: R_X86_64_PC32 kmalloc_caches+0x4c
and the reason for that is the following line:
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:
1517 scan_cfg_out = kzalloc(sizeof(union mwifiex_scan_cmd_config_tlv),
1518 GFP_KERNEL);
sizeof(union mwifiex_scan_cmd_config_tlv) is now one-byte smaller due to the
flex-array transformation:
46 union mwifiex_scan_cmd_config_tlv {
47 /* Scan configuration (variable length) */
48 struct mwifiex_scan_cmd_config config;
49 /* Max allocated block */
50 u8 config_alloc_buf[MAX_SCAN_CFG_ALLOC];
51 };
Notice that MAX_SCAN_CFG_ALLOC is defined in terms of
sizeof(struct mwifiex_ie_types_rates_param_set), see:
26 /* Memory needed to store supported rate */
27 #define RATE_TLV_MAX_SIZE (sizeof(struct mwifiex_ie_types_rates_param_set) \
28 + HOSTCMD_SUPPORTED_RATES)
37 /* Maximum memory needed for a mwifiex_scan_cmd_config with all TLVs at max */
38 #define MAX_SCAN_CFG_ALLOC (sizeof(struct mwifiex_scan_cmd_config) \
39 + sizeof(struct mwifiex_ie_types_num_probes) \
40 + sizeof(struct mwifiex_ie_types_htcap) \
41 + CHAN_TLV_MAX_SIZE \
42 + RATE_TLV_MAX_SIZE \
43 + WILDCARD_SSID_TLV_MAX_SIZE)
This helps with the ongoing efforts to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE
routines on memcpy() and help us make progress towards globally
enabling -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [1].
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/252
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
index 9616bd8b49f1..8c7c744683bc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ struct mwifiex_ie_types_chan_band_list_param_set {
struct mwifiex_ie_types_rates_param_set {
struct mwifiex_ie_types_header header;
- u8 rates[1];
+ u8 rates[];
} __packed;
struct mwifiex_ie_types_ssid_param_set {
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2023-02-03 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-03 1:34 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2023-02-03 17:57 ` [PATCH][next] wifi: mwifiex: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member Kees Cook
2023-02-13 16:53 ` Kalle Valo
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