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From: Jack Rosenthal <jrosenth@chromium.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>,
	Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
	Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>,
	Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] firmware: coreboot: Check size of table entry and split memcpy
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:31:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8D608sr+jhBQCXG@chromium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230112230312.give.446-kees@kernel.org>

On 2023-01-12 at 15:03 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> The memcpy() of the data following a coreboot_table_entry couldn't
> be evaluated by the compiler under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. To make it
> easier to reason about, add an explicit flexible array member to struct
> coreboot_device so the entire entry can be copied at once. Additionally,
> validate the sizes before copying. Avoids this run-time false positive
> warning:
> 
>   memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 168) of single field "&device->entry" at drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c:103 (size 8)
> 
> Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/03ae2704-8c30-f9f0-215b-7cdf4ad35a9a@molgen.mpg.de/
> Cc: Jack Rosenthal <jrosenth@chromium.org>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
> Cc: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
> Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230107031406.gonna.761-kees@kernel.org
> ---

Reviewed-by: Jack Rosenthal <jrosenth@chromium.org>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-13  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-12 23:03 [PATCH v3] firmware: coreboot: Check size of table entry and split memcpy Kees Cook
2023-01-12 23:25 ` Stephen Boyd
2023-01-13  6:31 ` Jack Rosenthal [this message]

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