With CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE enabled, string functions will also perform dynamic checks for string size which can panic the kernel, like incase of overflow detection.
In papr_scm, papr_scm_pmu_check_events function uses stat->stat_id with string operations, to populate the nvdimm_events_map array. Since stat_id variable is not NULL terminated, the kernel panics with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE enabled at boot time. Below are the logs of kernel panic: [ 0.090221][ T1] detected buffer overflow in __fortify_strlen [ 0.090241][ T1] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.090246][ T1] kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:980! [ 0.090253][ T1] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] ........ [ 0.090375][ T1] NIP [c00000000077dad0] fortify_panic+0x28/0x38 [ 0.090382][ T1] LR [c00000000077dacc] fortify_panic+0x24/0x38 [ 0.090387][ T1] Call Trace: [ 0.090390][ T1] [c0000022d77836e0] [c00000000077dacc] fortify_panic+0x24/0x38 (unreliable) [ 9.297707] [ T1] [c00800000deb2660] papr_scm_pmu_check_events.constprop.0+0x118/0x220 [papr_scm] [ 9.297721] [ T1] [c00800000deb2cb0] papr_scm_probe+0x288/0x62c [papr_scm] [ 9.297732] [ T1] [c0000000009b46a8] platform_probe+0x98/0x150 Fix this issue by using kmemdup_nul function to copy the content of stat->stat_id directly to the nvdimm_events_map array. Fixes: 4c08d4bbc089 ("powerpc/papr_scm: Add perf interface support") Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kj...@linux.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c index f58728d5f10d..39962c905542 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c @@ -462,7 +462,6 @@ static int papr_scm_pmu_check_events(struct papr_scm_priv *p, struct nvdimm_pmu { struct papr_scm_perf_stat *stat; struct papr_scm_perf_stats *stats; - char *statid; int index, rc, count; u32 available_events; @@ -493,14 +492,12 @@ static int papr_scm_pmu_check_events(struct papr_scm_priv *p, struct nvdimm_pmu for (index = 0, stat = stats->scm_statistic, count = 0; index < available_events; index++, ++stat) { - statid = kzalloc(strlen(stat->stat_id) + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!statid) { + p->nvdimm_events_map[count] = kmemdup_nul(stat->stat_id, 8, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p->nvdimm_events_map[count]) { rc = -ENOMEM; goto out_nvdimm_events_map; } - strcpy(statid, stat->stat_id); - p->nvdimm_events_map[count] = statid; count++; } p->nvdimm_events_map[count] = NULL; -- 2.31.1