linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] media: uvcvideo: Silence memcpy() run-time false positive warnings

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Message-ID: <CANiDSCtjX6+xZn=YkSfqY8xTi7e=OZWbUNtuJ_d=OreFbrgaog@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:14:46 +0100
From:   Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Cc:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, ionut_n2001@...oo.com,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: uvcvideo: Silence memcpy() run-time false positive warnings

Hi Andy

On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 23:07, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 11:46:00AM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > Hi Laurent
> >
> > I was thinking about something on the line of the attached patch,
> >
> > uvc_frame_header->data could also be replaced with a union.
> >
> > Warning, not tested ;)
>
> ...
>
> > +struct uvc_frame_header {
> > +     u8 length;
> > +     u8 flags;
> > +     u8 data[];
> > +} __packed;
>
> __packed! (See below)
>
> ...
>
> > +             pts = (u32 *) header->data;
>
> Ai-ai-ai.
> Here is just a yellow flag...
>
> ...
>
> >       uvc_dbg(stream->dev, FRAME,
> >               "%s(): t-sys %lluns, SOF %u, len %u, flags 0x%x, PTS %u, STC %u frame SOF %u\n",
> >               __func__, ktime_to_ns(time), meta->sof, meta->length,
> >               meta->flags,
> > +             has_pts ? *pts : 0,
>
> ...and here is a red flag. What you need to have is

Thanks! you are absolutely right :)

Luckily  Laurent merged the original patch not mine.

Regards!

>
>         void *pts;
>         u32 pts_val;
>
>         pts_val = get_unaligned_be32(); // or le32
>
>         ...use pts_val...
>
> > +             has_scr ? scr->scr : 0,
> > +             has_scr ? scr->frame_sof & 0x7ff : 0);
>
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>


-- 
Ricardo Ribalda