linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: socfpga: Fix crash with CONFIG_FORTIRY

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Date:   Thu, 18 Nov 2021 09:20:49 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...nel.org>,
        "Ivan T . Ivanov" <iivanov@...e.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: socfpga: Fix crash with CONFIG_FORTIRY_SOURCE

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 03:25:08PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> When CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE is set, memcpy() checks the potential
> buffer overflow and panics.  The code in sofcpga bootstrapping
> contains the memcpy() calls are mistakenly translated as the shorter
> size, hence it triggers a panic as if it were overflowing.
> 
> This patch changes the secondary_trampoline and *_end definitions
> to arrays for avoiding the false-positive crash above.
> 
> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192473
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117193244.31162-1-tiwai@suse.de
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook