linux-kernel - [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: declare asm symbols as character arrays in pmsu.c

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:31:08 -0700
From:   Ethan Tuttle <ethan@...antuttle.com>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     Ethan Tuttle <ethan@...antuttle.com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: declare asm symbols as character arrays in pmsu.c

With CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, memcpy uses the declared size of operands to
detect buffer overflows.  If src or dest is declared as a char, attempts to
copy more than byte will result in a fortify_panic().

Address this problem in mvebu_setup_boot_addr_wa() by declaring
mvebu_boot_wa_start and mvebu_boot_wa_end as character arrays.  Also remove
a couple addressof operators to avoid "arithmetic on pointer to an
incomplete type" compiler error.

See commit 54a7d50b9205 ("x86: mark kprobe templates as character arrays,
not single characters") for a similar fix.

Fixes "detected buffer overflow in memcpy" error during init on some mvebu
systems (armada-370-xp, armada-375):

(fortify_panic) from (mvebu_setup_boot_addr_wa+0xb0/0xb4)
(mvebu_setup_boot_addr_wa) from (mvebu_v7_cpu_pm_init+0x154/0x204)
(mvebu_v7_cpu_pm_init) from (do_one_initcall+0x7c/0x1a8)
(do_one_initcall) from (kernel_init_freeable+0x1bc/0x254)
(kernel_init_freeable) from (kernel_init+0x8/0x114)
(kernel_init) from (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)

Signed-off-by: Ethan Tuttle <ethan@...antuttle.com>
Tested-by: Ethan Tuttle <ethan@...antuttle.com>
---
 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/pmsu.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/pmsu.c b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/pmsu.c
index 27a78c80e5b1..73d5d72dfc3e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/pmsu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/pmsu.c
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ void mvebu_pmsu_set_cpu_boot_addr(int hw_cpu, void *boot_addr)
 		PMSU_BOOT_ADDR_REDIRECT_OFFSET(hw_cpu));
 }
 
-extern unsigned char mvebu_boot_wa_start;
-extern unsigned char mvebu_boot_wa_end;
+extern unsigned char mvebu_boot_wa_start[];
+extern unsigned char mvebu_boot_wa_end[];
 
 /*
  * This function sets up the boot address workaround needed for SMP
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ int mvebu_setup_boot_addr_wa(unsigned int crypto_eng_target,
 			     phys_addr_t resume_addr_reg)
 {
 	void __iomem *sram_virt_base;
-	u32 code_len = &mvebu_boot_wa_end - &mvebu_boot_wa_start;
+	u32 code_len = mvebu_boot_wa_end - mvebu_boot_wa_start;
 
 	mvebu_mbus_del_window(BOOTROM_BASE, BOOTROM_SIZE);
 	mvebu_mbus_add_window_by_id(crypto_eng_target, crypto_eng_attribute,
-- 
2.17.1