linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] net: mana: Avoid open coded arithmetic

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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 21:45:05 +0000
From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
To: Erick Archer <erick.archer@...look.com>
Cc: Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>, Ajay Sharma <sharmaajay@...rosoft.com>, 
	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>, 
	Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
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	llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] net: mana: Avoid open coded arithmetic

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 04:23:37PM +0200, Erick Archer wrote:
> This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2].
> 
> As the "req" variable is a pointer to "struct mana_cfg_rx_steer_req_v2"
> and this structure ends in a flexible array:
> 
> struct mana_cfg_rx_steer_req_v2 {
>         [...]
>         mana_handle_t indir_tab[] __counted_by(num_indir_entries);
> };
> 
> the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
> do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + size * count" in
> the kzalloc() function.
> 
> Moreover, use the "offsetof" helper to get the indirect table offset
> instead of the "sizeof" operator and avoid the open-coded arithmetic in
> pointers using the new flex member. This new structure member also allow
> us to remove the "req_indir_tab" variable since it is no longer needed.
> 
> Now, it is also possible to use the "flex_array_size" helper to compute
> the size of these trailing elements in the "memcpy" function.
> 
> This way, the code is more readable and safer.
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
> modified manually.
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
> Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@...look.com>

Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 14 ++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
> index d8af5e7e15b4..f2fae659bf3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
> @@ -1058,11 +1058,10 @@ static int mana_cfg_vport_steering(struct mana_port_context *apc,
>  	struct mana_cfg_rx_steer_req_v2 *req;
>  	struct mana_cfg_rx_steer_resp resp = {};
>  	struct net_device *ndev = apc->ndev;
> -	mana_handle_t *req_indir_tab;
>  	u32 req_buf_size;
>  	int err;
>  
> -	req_buf_size = sizeof(*req) + sizeof(mana_handle_t) * num_entries;
> +	req_buf_size = struct_size(req, indir_tab, num_entries);
>  	req = kzalloc(req_buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!req)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -1074,7 +1073,8 @@ static int mana_cfg_vport_steering(struct mana_port_context *apc,
>  
>  	req->vport = apc->port_handle;
>  	req->num_indir_entries = num_entries;
> -	req->indir_tab_offset = sizeof(*req);
> +	req->indir_tab_offset = offsetof(struct mana_cfg_rx_steer_req_v2,
> +					 indir_tab);
>  	req->rx_enable = rx;
>  	req->rss_enable = apc->rss_state;
>  	req->update_default_rxobj = update_default_rxobj;
> @@ -1086,11 +1086,9 @@ static int mana_cfg_vport_steering(struct mana_port_context *apc,
>  	if (update_key)
>  		memcpy(&req->hashkey, apc->hashkey, MANA_HASH_KEY_SIZE);
>  
> -	if (update_tab) {
> -		req_indir_tab = (mana_handle_t *)(req + 1);
> -		memcpy(req_indir_tab, apc->rxobj_table,
> -		       req->num_indir_entries * sizeof(mana_handle_t));
> -	}
> +	if (update_tab)
> +		memcpy(req->indir_tab, apc->rxobj_table,
> +		       flex_array_size(req, indir_tab, req->num_indir_entries));
>  
>  	err = mana_send_request(apc->ac, req, req_buf_size, &resp,
>  				sizeof(resp));
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 

Thanks
Justin