Re: [PATCH] iommufd: Add top-level bounds check on kernel buffer size

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 02:38:17PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> While the op->size assignments are already bounds-checked at static
> initializer time, these limits aren't aggregated and tracked when doing
> later variable range checking under -Warray-bounds. Help the compiler
> see that we know what we're talking about, and we'll never ask to
> write more that sizeof(ucmd.cmd) bytes during the memset() inside
> copy_struct_from_user(). Seen under GCC 13:
> 
> In function 'copy_struct_from_user',
>     inlined from 'iommufd_fops_ioctl' at ../drivers/iommu/iommufd/main.c:333:8:
> ../include/linux/fortify-string.h:59:33: warning: '__builtin_memset' offset [57, 4294967294] is out of the bounds [0, 56] of object 'buf' with type 'union ucmd_buffer' [-Warray-bounds=]
>    59 | #define __underlying_memset     __builtin_memset

This seems strange to me

I thought the way gcc handled this was if it knew the value must be in
a certain range then it would check it

If it couldn't figure out any ranges it would not make a warning.

So why did it decide "rest" was in that really weird range?

Is this just a compiler bug?

Jason