linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: physmap: physmap-bt1-rom: Fix unintentional stack access

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Date:   Tue,  2 Mar 2021 18:14:50 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>
Cc:     linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: physmap: physmap-bt1-rom: Fix unintentional stack access

On Fri, 2021-02-12 at 10:40:22 UTC, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" wrote:
> Cast &data to (char *) in order to avoid unintentionally accessing
> the stack.
> 
> Notice that data is of type u32, so any increment to &data
> will be in the order of 4-byte chunks, and this piece of code
> is actually intended to be a byte offset.
> 
> Fixes: b3e79e7682e0 ("mtd: physmap: Add Baikal-T1 physically mapped ROM support")
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1497765 ("Out-of-bounds access")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> Acked-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel