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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/legacy_serial: Fix UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 16:14:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210510211444.GE10366@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5e3c8e66bad3725d7d48d0e45c4b7eb7c02631d.1620455671.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 06:36:21AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> UBSAN complains when a pointer is calculated with invalid
> 'legacy_serial_console' index, allthough the index is verified
> before dereferencing the pointer.

Addressing like this is UB already.

You could just move this:

> -	if (legacy_serial_console < 0)
> -		return 0;

to before

> -	struct legacy_serial_info *info = &legacy_serial_infos[legacy_serial_console];
> -	struct plat_serial8250_port *port = &legacy_serial_ports[legacy_serial_console];

and no other change is necessary.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-10 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-08  6:36 [PATCH] powerpc/legacy_serial: Fix UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds Christophe Leroy
2021-05-10 21:14 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2021-05-11  1:16   ` Michael Ellerman
2021-05-11  4:54     ` Christophe Leroy
2021-05-15 22:43 ` Michael Ellerman

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