linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 11/74] PM / sleep: declare __tracedata symbols as char[] rather than char

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:56:16 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 11/74] PM / sleep: declare __tracedata symbols as char[] rather than char

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>

commit f97238373b8662a6d580e204df2e7bcbfa43e27a upstream.

Accessing more than one byte from a symbol declared simply 'char' is undefined
behavior, as reported by UBSAN:

	UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/base/power/trace.c:178:18
	load of address ffffffff8203fc78 with insufficient space
	for an object of type 'char'

Avoid this by declaring the symbols as arrays.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/base/power/trace.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/power/trace.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/trace.c
@@ -166,14 +166,14 @@ void generate_pm_trace(const void *trace
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generate_pm_trace);
 
-extern char __tracedata_start, __tracedata_end;
+extern char __tracedata_start[], __tracedata_end[];
 static int show_file_hash(unsigned int value)
 {
 	int match;
 	char *tracedata;
 
 	match = 0;
-	for (tracedata = &__tracedata_start ; tracedata < &__tracedata_end ;
+	for (tracedata = __tracedata_start ; tracedata < __tracedata_end ;
 			tracedata += 2 + sizeof(unsigned long)) {
 		unsigned short lineno = *(unsigned short *)tracedata;
 		const char *file = *(const char **)(tracedata + 2);