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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] rtc: s5m: Remove VLA usage
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 11:20:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180308172031.GA14541@embeddedgus> (raw)

In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them
with fixed-length arrays instead.

>From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code
evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we
can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug.

Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c
index 6deae10..2b5f4f7 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
  */
 #define UDR_READ_RETRY_CNT	5
 
+/* Maximum number of registers for setting time/alarm0/alarm1 */
+#define MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS	8
+
 /*
  * Registers used by the driver which are different between chipsets.
  *
@@ -367,7 +370,7 @@ static void s5m8763_tm_to_data(struct rtc_time *tm, u8 *data)
 static int s5m_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
 {
 	struct s5m_rtc_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	int ret;
 
 	if (info->regs->read_time_udr_mask) {
@@ -413,7 +416,7 @@ static int s5m_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
 static int s5m_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
 {
 	struct s5m_rtc_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	switch (info->device_type) {
@@ -450,7 +453,7 @@ static int s5m_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
 static int s5m_rtc_read_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm)
 {
 	struct s5m_rtc_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	unsigned int val;
 	int ret, i;
 
@@ -500,7 +503,7 @@ static int s5m_rtc_read_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm)
 
 static int s5m_rtc_stop_alarm(struct s5m_rtc_info *info)
 {
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	int ret, i;
 	struct rtc_time tm;
 
@@ -545,7 +548,7 @@ static int s5m_rtc_stop_alarm(struct s5m_rtc_info *info)
 static int s5m_rtc_start_alarm(struct s5m_rtc_info *info)
 {
 	int ret;
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	u8 alarm0_conf;
 	struct rtc_time tm;
 
@@ -598,7 +601,7 @@ static int s5m_rtc_start_alarm(struct s5m_rtc_info *info)
 static int s5m_rtc_set_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm)
 {
 	struct s5m_rtc_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	int ret;
 
 	switch (info->device_type) {
-- 
2.7.4

             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-08 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-08 17:20 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2018-03-08 17:58 ` [PATCH] rtc: s5m: Remove VLA usage Kees Cook
2018-03-08 18:03   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-03-09 13:04     ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2018-03-10  4:34       ` Gustavo A. R. Silva

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