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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>,
	Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org>,
	Srujana Challa <schalla@marvell.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: marvell/cesa - Fix type mismatch warning
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 10:04:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202305231004.DC22DCDC@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230523083313.899332-1-arnd@kernel.org>

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> Commit df8fc4e934c1 ("kbuild: Enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3") uncovered
> a type mismatch in cesa 3des support that leads to a memcpy beyond the
> end of a structure:
> 
> In function 'fortify_memcpy_chk',
>     inlined from 'mv_cesa_des3_ede_setkey' at drivers/crypto/marvell/cesa/cipher.c:307:2:
> include/linux/fortify-string.h:583:25: error: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning]
>   583 |                         __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
>       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> This is probably harmless as the actual data that is copied has the correct
> type, but clearly worth fixing nonetheless.
> 
> Fixes: 4ada48397823 ("crypto: marvell/cesa - add Triple-DES support")
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-23 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-23  8:33 [PATCH] crypto: marvell/cesa - Fix type mismatch warning Arnd Bergmann
2023-05-23 17:04 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-05-30 22:48 ` Kees Cook
2023-05-31 10:58   ` Herbert Xu
2023-05-31 16:31     ` Kees Cook
2023-06-01 10:18       ` Herbert Xu
2023-06-01 14:09         ` Kees Cook
2023-06-02 10:23 ` Herbert Xu

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