From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: warning upon association with latest kernel
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:31:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202211212026.6959A4CBBC@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6cb6803-602f-91e3-8bd3-3bbbd924731d@suse.com>
On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 04:26:39PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> I am getting this warning when I connect to my home
> wifi upon boot:
>
> [...]
> [ 1321.321889] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 16) of single field "&compat_event->pointer" at net/wireless/wext-core.c:624 (size 4)
This should be fixed by commit e3e6e1d16a4c ("wifi: wext: use flex array
destination for memcpy()").
> [...]
> Head commit is:
>
> commit f141df371335645ce29a87d9683a3f79fba7fd67 (origin/master, origin/HEAD)
> Merge: f49b2d89fb10 986d93f55bde
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Tue Nov 8 12:30:29 2022 -0800
>
> Merge tag 'audit-pr-20221107' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit
Are you sure that's the same kernel? The stated commit no longer has
"&compat_event->pointer" as a memcpy argument...
--
Kees Cook
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