Re: [PATCH RFC] wifi: ath12k: workaround fortify warnings in ath12k_wow_convert_8023_to_80211()

Kees Cook
2024-07-08T19:31:15Z

On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 06:51:52PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 05:43:41PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> >> From: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
> >>
> >> Johannes reported with GCC 11.4 there's a fortify warning below. The warning is
> >> not seen with GCC 12.1 nor 13.2. Weirdly moving the other operand of sum to the
> >> other side the warning goes away. This is safe to do as the value of the
> >> operand is check earlier. But the code looks worse with this so I'm not sure
> >> what to do.
> >
> > FWIW, this isn't fortify, but -Wrestrict.
>
> Ah, thanks for correcting. I just saw fortify-string.h and made the
> wrong assumption.
>
> > I would expect the same warnings even with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE
> > disabled. Regardless, it's worth figuring out what's going on. It
> > looks like this is GCC's value range tracker deciding it sees a way
> > for things to go weird.
> >
> > I suspect they fixed -Wrestrict in later GCC versions. It might need to
> > be version-limited...
> >
> >> In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:374,
> >> from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:13,
> >> from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:13,
> >> from ./include/linux/sched.h:16,
> >> from ./include/linux/delay.h:23,
> >> from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c:7:
> >> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c: In function
> >> ‘ath12k_wow_convert_8023_to_80211.constprop’:
> >> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:114:33: error: ‘__builtin_memcpy’
> >> accessing 18446744073709551611 or more bytes at offsets 0 and 0
> >> overlaps 9223372036854775799 bytes at offset -9223372036854775804
> >> [-Werror=restrict]
> >
> > These huge negative values imply to me that GCC is looking at some
> > signed values somewhere.
> >
> >> [...]
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c
> >> index c5cba825a84a..e9588bb7561c 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c
> >> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ ath12k_wow_convert_8023_to_80211(struct ath12k *ar,
> >> if (eth_pkt_ofs < ETH_ALEN) {
> >> pkt_ofs = eth_pkt_ofs + a1_ofs;
> >>
> >> - if (eth_pkt_ofs + eth_pat_len < ETH_ALEN) {
> >> + if (eth_pat_len < ETH_ALEN - eth_pkt_ofs) {
> >> memcpy(pat, eth_pat, eth_pat_len);
> >> memcpy(bytemask, eth_bytemask, eth_pat_len);
> >
> > Both eth_pkt_ofs and eth_pat_len are size_t. ETH_ALEN isn't, but it
> > would be promoted to size_t here. The value tracker should see that
> > eth_pkt_ofs could be [0..ETH_ALEN). eth_pat_len is coming from an "int",
> > though, so that might be the confusion. It may think eth_pat_len could
> > be [0..UINT_MAX] (i.e. the full range of int within size_t).
> >
> > So [0..ETH_ALEN) + [0..UINT_MAX] < 6 might be doing something wrong in
> > GCC 11.x, and it's not actually doing the size_t promotion correctly,
> > or deciding something has wrapped and then thinking eth_pat_len could
> > span a giant region of the address space, which freaks out -Wrestrict.
> > i.e. it's seeing that for the "if" to be true, eth_pat_len could be large
> > enough to wrap around the addition (though this shouldn't be possible
> > for 64-bit size_t).
> >
> > So I could see how [0..UINT_MAX] < 6 - [0..ETH_ALEN) would make it
> > happier: the right side is now [1..6], so eth_pat_len becomes [1..6).
>
> Earlier I did some testing and I noticed that this if test also gives a
> warning:
>
> 1 + eth_pat_len < ETH_ALEN
>
> But this doesn't have any warning:
>
> 0 + eth_pat_len < ETH_ALEN
>
> And I stopped my investigation there :)
>
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
>
> So you think this should be applied? It's not really logical so I would
> prefer to avoid taking it if possible. Or should we just ignore the
> warning? It only happens on GCC 11 anyway.

I suspect this won't be the only place in the kernel where -Wrestrict
will give weird results with GCC 11, and there are still plenty of folks
using GCC 11. I think the best option would probably be to version-check
GCC to gate the addition of -Wrestrict.

Arnd, what do you think? This looks like a more extreme version of
commit f9fc1ec28bae ("crypto: drivers - avoid memcpy size warning")

-Kees

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Kees Cook