linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] NFC: hci: Split memcpy() of struct hcp

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Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2022 11:28:48 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: hci: Split memcpy() of struct hcp_message flexible
 array

On 24/09/2022 06:08, Kees Cook wrote:
> To work around a misbehavior of the compiler's ability to see into
> composite flexible array structs (as detailed in the coming memcpy()
> hardening series[1]), split the memcpy() of the header and the payload
> so no false positive run-time overflow warning will be generated. This
> split already existed for the "firstfrag" case, so just generalize the
> logic further.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220901065914.1417829-2-keescook@chromium.org/
> 

Looks correct:

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof