Re: [PATCH][V2] net: sctp: fix array overrun read on sctp_timer_tbl

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:45:42 +0000

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> Table sctp_timer_tbl is missing a TIMEOUT_RECONF string so
> add this in. Also compare timeout with the size of the array
> sctp_timer_tbl rather than SCTP_EVENT_TIMEOUT_MAX.  Also add
> a build time check that SCTP_EVENT_TIMEOUT_MAX is correct
> so we don't ever get this kind of mismatch between the table
> and SCTP_EVENT_TIMEOUT_MAX in the future.
> 
> Kudos to Marcel Ricardo Leitner for spotting the missing string
> and suggesting the build time sanity check.
> 
> Fixes CoverityScan CID#1397639 ("Out-of-bounds read")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Well, my bad... I reverted V1, that's fine.

But this patch doesn't even compile.

In file included from ./include/uapi/linux/stddef.h:1:0,
                 from ./include/linux/stddef.h:4,
                 from ./include/uapi/linux/posix_types.h:4,
                 from ./include/uapi/linux/types.h:13,
                 from ./include/linux/types.h:5,
                 from ./include/net/sctp/sctp.h:58,
                 from net/sctp/debug.c:41:
net/sctp/debug.c: In function ‘sctp_tname’:
./include/linux/compiler.h:518:38: error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_170’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: SCTP_EVENT_TIMEOUT_MAX + 1 != ARRAY_SIZE(sctp_timer_tbl)
  _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __LINE__)