Re: [PATCH] net/ncsi: Silence runtime memcpy() false positive warning

[Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 11:36:54AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 13:24 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The memcpy() in ncsi_cmd_handler_oem deserializes nca->data into a
> > flexible array structure that overlapping with non-flex-array members
> > (mfr_id) intentionally. Since the mem_to_flex() API is not finished,
> > temporarily silence this warning, since it is a false positive, using
> > unsafe_memcpy().
> > 
> > Reported-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CACPK8Xdfi=OJKP0x0D1w87fQeFZ4A2DP2qzGCRcuVbpU-9=4sQ@mail.gmail.com/
> > Cc: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> Is this for the -net or the -net-next tree? It applies to both...
> 
> It you are targetting the -net tree, I think it would be nicer adding a
> suitable Fixes tag.

-net-next (v6.2) is fine -- this is where the warning manifests.

-Kees

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Kees Cook