linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ima: Fix sizeof mismatches

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Message-ID: <a9a35d8b480112fe40b45392d0f0e9dcb5be536e.camel@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:51:11 -0400
From:   Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...ito.it>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ima: Fix sizeof mismatches

On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 11:27 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 12:02 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> > An incorrect sizeof is being used, sizeof(*fields) is not correct,
> > it should be sizeof(**fields). This is not causing a problem since
> > the size of these is the same. Fix this in the kmalloc_array and
> > memcpy calls.
> []
> > diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c
> []
> > @@ -216,11 +216,11 @@ int template_desc_init_fields(const char *template_fmt,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	if (fields && num_fields) {
> > -		*fields = kmalloc_array(i, sizeof(*fields), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +		*fields = kmalloc_array(i, sizeof(**fields), GFP_KERNEL);
> >  		if (*fields == NULL)
> >  			return -ENOMEM;
> >  
> > -		memcpy(*fields, found_fields, i * sizeof(*fields));
> > +		memcpy(*fields, found_fields, i * sizeof(**fields));
> 
> Maybe use kmemdup instead.
> 
> 	if (fields && num_fields) {
> 		*fields = kmemdup(found_fields, i * sizeof(**fields), GFP_KERNEL);
> 		etc...
> 

Thanks, Joe.  Since this patch will be backported, perhaps it would be
better to leave this as a bug fix and upstream other changes
independently.

Mimi