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Message-ID: <60903bfb-fe91-ed19-1d77-8fb44cef858c@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:19:07 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>
Cc:     SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@...ineon.com, aspriel@...il.com,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com, franky.lin@...adcom.com,
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        hdegoede@...hat.com, keescook@...omium.org, kvalo@...nel.org,
        linus.walleij@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, marcan@...can.st,
        ryohei.kondo@...ress.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: brcmfmac: Replace 1-element arrays with flexible
 arrays



On 9/14/23 01:02, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> Since commit 2d47c6956ab3 ("ubsan: Tighten UBSAN_BOUNDS on GCC"),
> UBSAN_BOUNDS no longer pretends 1-element arrays are unbounded. Walking
> 'element' and 'channel_list' will trigger warnings, so make them proper
> flexible arrays.
> 
> False positive warnings were:
> 
>    UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c:6984:20
>    index 1 is out of range for type '__le32 [1]'
> 
>    UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c:1126:27
>    index 1 is out of range for type '__le16 [1]'
> 
> for these lines of code:
> 
>    6884  ch.chspec = (u16)le32_to_cpu(list->element[i]);
> 
>    1126  params_le->channel_list[i] = cpu_to_le16(chanspec);
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 6.5+
> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@...onical.com>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>

Thanks
--
Gustavo

> 
> ---
> v2:
>    - Use element[] instead of DFA() in brcmf_chanspec_list.
>    - Add Cc: stable tag
> ---
>   .../wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h    | 9 +++++++--
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
> index bece26741d3a..611d1a6aabb9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwil_types.h
> @@ -442,7 +442,12 @@ struct brcmf_scan_params_v2_le {
>   				 * fixed parameter portion is assumed, otherwise
>   				 * ssid in the fixed portion is ignored
>   				 */
> -	__le16 channel_list[1];	/* list of chanspecs */
> +	union {
> +		__le16 padding;	/* Reserve space for at least 1 entry for abort
> +				 * which uses an on stack brcmf_scan_params_v2_le
> +				 */
> +		DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(__le16, channel_list);	/* chanspecs */
> +	};
>   };
>   
>   struct brcmf_scan_results {
> @@ -702,7 +707,7 @@ struct brcmf_sta_info_le {
>   
>   struct brcmf_chanspec_list {
>   	__le32	count;		/* # of entries */
> -	__le32	element[1];	/* variable length uint32 list */
> +	__le32  element[];	/* variable length uint32 list */
>   };
>   
>   /*