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Message-ID: <b0749fb9-ff4e-3237-e2f7-b97255545eb0@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 May 2021 10:49:55 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     "Switzer, David" <david.switzer@...el.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        "Nguyen, Anthony L" <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        "linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][next] ixgbe: Fix out-bounds warning in
 ixgbe_host_interface_command()

Hi all,

On 5/6/21 02:25, Switzer, David wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan-bounces@...osl.org> On Behalf Of
>> Gustavo A. R. Silva
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:04 PM
>> To: Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>; Nguyen, Anthony L
>> <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>; David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>; Jakub
>> Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-
>> kernel@...r.kernel.org; Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>; intel-
>> wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org; linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
>> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][next] ixgbe: Fix out-bounds warning in
>> ixgbe_host_interface_command()
>>
>> Replace union with a couple of pointers in order to fix the following out-of-
>> bounds warning:
>>
>>  CC [M]  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.o
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c: In function
>> ‘ixgbe_host_interface_command’:
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c:3729:13: warning: array
>> subscript 1 is above array bounds of ‘u32[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned int[1]’} [-Warray-
>> bounds]
>> 3729 |   bp->u32arr[bi] = IXGBE_READ_REG_ARRAY(hw, IXGBE_FLEX_MNG, bi);
>>      |   ~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c:3682:7: note: while
>> referencing ‘u32arr’
>> 3682 |   u32 u32arr[1];
>>      |       ^~~~~~
>>
>> This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds.
>>
>> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
>> Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 16 +++++++---------
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
> Tested-by: Dave Switzer <david.switzer@...el.com>

Thanks for this, Dave. :)

By the way, we are about to be able to globally enable -Warray-bounds and,
this is one of the last out-of-bounds warnings in linux-next.

Thanks
--
Gustavo