linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Split memcpy of flex-array

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:17:36 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Split memcpy of flex-array

To work around a misbehavior of the compiler's ability to see into
composite flexible array structs (as detailed in the coming memcpy()
hardening series[1]), split the memcpy() of the header and the payload
so no false positive run-time overflow warning will be generated. This
results in the already inlined memcpy getting unrolled a little more,
which very slightly increases text size:

$ size drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o.before drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  22968    5239     232   28439    6f17 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o.before
  23032    5239     232   28503    6f57 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o

Avoids the run-time false-positive warning:

  memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 212) of single field "&ctx->msg" at drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c:1133 (size 16)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220901065914.1417829-2-keescook@chromium.org/

Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Cc: linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Reported-by: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
v2: - fix commit log, add tags and exact warning test from Nathan
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220924030741.3345349-1-keescook@chromium.org
---
 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
index 23c680d1a0f5..9b111a8262e3 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
@@ -1131,7 +1131,8 @@ void vmbus_on_msg_dpc(unsigned long data)
 			return;
 
 		INIT_WORK(&ctx->work, vmbus_onmessage_work);
-		memcpy(&ctx->msg, &msg_copy, sizeof(msg->header) + payload_size);
+		ctx->msg.header = msg_copy.header;
+		memcpy(&ctx->msg.payload, msg_copy.u.payload, payload_size);
 
 		/*
 		 * The host can generate a rescind message while we
-- 
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