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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>,
	"Ivan T . Ivanov" <iivanov@suse.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: socfpga: Fix crash with CONFIG_FORTIRY_SOURCE
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 09:20:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202111180920.FA0FC5F9@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211118142508.19200-1-tiwai@suse.de>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 03:25:08PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> When CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE is set, memcpy() checks the potential
> buffer overflow and panics.  The code in sofcpga bootstrapping
> contains the memcpy() calls are mistakenly translated as the shorter
> size, hence it triggers a panic as if it were overflowing.
> 
> This patch changes the secondary_trampoline and *_end definitions
> to arrays for avoiding the false-positive crash above.
> 
> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192473
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117193244.31162-1-tiwai@suse.de
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-18 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-18 14:25 [PATCH v2] ARM: socfpga: Fix crash with CONFIG_FORTIRY_SOURCE Takashi Iwai
2021-11-18 17:20 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2021-11-18 22:08 ` Dinh Nguyen
2021-11-19 13:37   ` Takashi Iwai

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