On 27/02/2024 12:09, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 11:14 AM Daniel Lezcano
<daniel.lezc...@linaro.org> wrote:

On 27/02/2024 01:54, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
When booting a CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y kernel compiled with a toolchain
that supports __counted_by() (such as clang-18 and newer), there is a
panic on boot:

    [    2.913770] memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 72 byte write of buffer 
size 0
    [    2.920834] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at lib/string_helpers.c:1027 
__fortify_report+0x5c/0x74
    ...
    [    3.039208] Call trace:
    [    3.041643]  __fortify_report+0x5c/0x74
    [    3.045469]  __fortify_panic+0x18/0x20
    [    3.049209]  thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips+0x4c8/0x4f8

This panic occurs because trips is counted by num_trips but num_trips is
assigned after the call to memcpy(), so the fortify checks think the
buffer size is zero because tz was allocated with kzalloc().

Move the num_trips assignment before the memcpy() to resolve the panic
and ensure that the fortify checks work properly.

Fixes: 9b0a62758665 ("thermal: core: Store zone trips table in struct 
thermal_zone_device")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nat...@kernel.org>
---
   drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 2 +-
   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
index bb21f78b4bfa..1eabc8ebe27d 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
@@ -1354,8 +1354,8 @@ thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips(const char *type,

       tz->device.class = thermal_class;
       tz->devdata = devdata;
-     memcpy(tz->trips, trips, num_trips * sizeof(*trips));
       tz->num_trips = num_trips;
+     memcpy(tz->trips, trips, num_trips * sizeof(*trips));

IIUC, clang-18 is used and supports __counted_by().

Is it possible sizeof(*trips) returns already the real trips array size
and we are multiplying it again by num_trips ?

While with an older compiler, __counted_by() does nothing and we have to
multiply by num_trips ?

IOW, the array size arithmetic is different depending if we have
_counted_by supported or not ?

IIUC it is just the instrumentation using the current value of
tz->num_trips (which is 0 before the initialization).

Right, but I am wondering if

        memcpy(tz->trips, trips, num_trips * sizeof(*trips));

        is still correct with __counted_by because:

 (1) if the compiler supports it:

        sizeof(*trips) == 24 bytes * num_trips

        then:

        memcpy(tz->trips, trips, num_trips * sizeof(*trips));

        memcpy(tz->trips, trips, num_trips * 24 * num_trips);

        ==> memory size = 24 * num_trips^2

 (2) if the compiler does not support it:

        sizeof(*trips) == 24 bytes

        then:

        memcpy(tz->trips, trips, num_trips * sizeof(*trips));

        memcpy(tz->trips, trips, num_trips * 24);

        ==> memory size = 24 * num_trips

Or did I misunderstand __counted_by ?


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