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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>,
	Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@gmail.com>,
	Sharvari Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@nxp.com>,
	Xinming Hu <huxinming820@gmail.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] wifi: mwifiex: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 19:34:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9xkjXeElSEQ0FPY@work> (raw)

One-element arrays are deprecated, and we are replacing them with flexible
array members instead. So, replace one-element array with flexible-array
member in struct mwifiex_ie_types_rates_param_set.

These are the only binary differences I see after the change:

mwifiex.o
_@@ -50154,7 +50154,7 @@
                        23514: R_X86_64_32S     kmalloc_caches+0x50
    23518:      call   2351d <mwifiex_scan_networks+0x11d>
                        23519: R_X86_64_PLT32   __tsan_read8-0x4
-   2351d:      mov    $0x225,%edx
+   2351d:      mov    $0x224,%edx
    23522:      mov    $0xdc0,%esi
    23527:      mov    0x0(%rip),%rdi        # 2352e <mwifiex_scan_networks+0x12e>
                        2352a: R_X86_64_PC32    kmalloc_caches+0x4c
scan.o
_@@ -5582,7 +5582,7 @@
                        4394: R_X86_64_32S      kmalloc_caches+0x50
     4398:      call   439d <mwifiex_scan_networks+0x11d>
                        4399: R_X86_64_PLT32    __tsan_read8-0x4
-    439d:      mov    $0x225,%edx
+    439d:      mov    $0x224,%edx
     43a2:      mov    $0xdc0,%esi
     43a7:      mov    0x0(%rip),%rdi        # 43ae <mwifiex_scan_networks+0x12e>
                        43aa: R_X86_64_PC32     kmalloc_caches+0x4c

and the reason for that is the following line:

drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:
1517         scan_cfg_out = kzalloc(sizeof(union mwifiex_scan_cmd_config_tlv),
1518                                GFP_KERNEL);

sizeof(union mwifiex_scan_cmd_config_tlv) is now one-byte smaller due to the
flex-array transformation:

  46 union mwifiex_scan_cmd_config_tlv {
  47         /* Scan configuration (variable length) */
  48         struct mwifiex_scan_cmd_config config;
  49         /* Max allocated block */
  50         u8 config_alloc_buf[MAX_SCAN_CFG_ALLOC];
  51 };

Notice that MAX_SCAN_CFG_ALLOC is defined in terms of
sizeof(struct mwifiex_ie_types_rates_param_set), see:

  26 /* Memory needed to store supported rate */
  27 #define RATE_TLV_MAX_SIZE   (sizeof(struct mwifiex_ie_types_rates_param_set) \
  28                                 + HOSTCMD_SUPPORTED_RATES)

  37 /* Maximum memory needed for a mwifiex_scan_cmd_config with all TLVs at max */
  38 #define MAX_SCAN_CFG_ALLOC (sizeof(struct mwifiex_scan_cmd_config)        \
  39                                 + sizeof(struct mwifiex_ie_types_num_probes)   \
  40                                 + sizeof(struct mwifiex_ie_types_htcap)       \
  41                                 + CHAN_TLV_MAX_SIZE                 \
  42                                 + RATE_TLV_MAX_SIZE                 \
  43                                 + WILDCARD_SSID_TLV_MAX_SIZE)

This helps with the ongoing efforts to tighten the FORTIFY_SOURCE
routines on memcpy() and help us make progress towards globally
enabling -fstrict-flex-arrays=3 [1].

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/252
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-October/602902.html [1]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
index 9616bd8b49f1..8c7c744683bc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/fw.h
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ struct mwifiex_ie_types_chan_band_list_param_set {
 
 struct mwifiex_ie_types_rates_param_set {
 	struct mwifiex_ie_types_header header;
-	u8 rates[1];
+	u8 rates[];
 } __packed;
 
 struct mwifiex_ie_types_ssid_param_set {
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2023-02-03  1:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-03  1:34 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2023-02-03 17:57 ` [PATCH][next] wifi: mwifiex: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member Kees Cook
2023-02-13 16:53 ` Kalle Valo

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