linux-kernel - [PATCH] IB/ehca: use correct destination for memcpy

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2015 16:38:02 +0200
From:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
To:	Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Subject: [PATCH] IB/ehca: use correct destination for memcpy

Using an element of a struct as the address for the memcpy of the whole
struct may introduce a buffer overflow and does not help readability either
simply pass the real thing as first argument to memcpy.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
---

passing the first element of a struct as destination triggers buffer 
overflows warnings in tools like Smatch. 
./drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c:ehca_attach_mcast.80 WARNING:
memcpy copying entire struct to first element
./drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c:ehca_detach_mcast.117 WARNING:
memcpy copying entire struct to first element

Simply use the structure rather than the first element (which could change)
which also help readability.

Patch was only compile tested with ppc64_defconfig (implies
CONFIG_INFINIBAND_EHCA=m)

Patch is against 4.1-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20150511)

 drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c
index 120aedf..cec1815 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ int ehca_attach_mcast(struct ib_qp *ibqp, union ib_gid *gid, u16 lid)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	memcpy(&my_gid.raw, gid->raw, sizeof(union ib_gid));
+	memcpy(&my_gid, gid->raw, sizeof(union ib_gid));
 
 	subnet_prefix = be64_to_cpu(my_gid.global.subnet_prefix);
 	interface_id = be64_to_cpu(my_gid.global.interface_id);
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ int ehca_detach_mcast(struct ib_qp *ibqp, union ib_gid *gid, u16 lid)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	memcpy(&my_gid.raw, gid->raw, sizeof(union ib_gid));
+	memcpy(&my_gid, gid->raw, sizeof(union ib_gid));
 
 	subnet_prefix = be64_to_cpu(my_gid.global.subnet_prefix);
 	interface_id = be64_to_cpu(my_gid.global.interface_id);
-- 
1.7.10.4

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