Re: [PATCH] scsi: ufs: ufshcd: Remove VLA usage

From: Subhash Jadavani
Date: Wed May 16 2018 - 16:22:20 EST


On 2018-05-02 16:58, Kees Cook wrote:
On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1] this moves buffers
off the stack. In the second instance, this collapses two separately
allocated buffers into a single buffer, since they are used consecutively,
which saves 256 bytes (QUERY_DESC_MAX_SIZE + 1) of stack space.

[1]
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c b/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c
index 00e79057f870..a271534362f6 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c
@@ -5958,14 +5958,18 @@ static void ufshcd_init_icc_levels(struct ufs_hba *hba)
{
int ret;
int buff_len = hba->desc_size.pwr_desc;
- u8 desc_buf[hba->desc_size.pwr_desc];
+ u8 *desc_buf;
+
+ desc_buf = kmalloc(buff_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!desc_buf)
+ return;

ret = ufshcd_read_power_desc(hba, desc_buf, buff_len);
if (ret) {
dev_err(hba->dev,
"%s: Failed reading power descriptor.len = %d ret = %d",
__func__, buff_len, ret);
- return;
+ goto out;
}

hba->init_prefetch_data.icc_level =
@@ -5983,6 +5987,8 @@ static void ufshcd_init_icc_levels(struct ufs_hba *hba)
"%s: Failed configuring bActiveICCLevel = %d ret = %d",
__func__, hba->init_prefetch_data.icc_level , ret);

+out:
+ kfree(desc_buf);
}

/**
@@ -6052,9 +6058,17 @@ static int ufs_get_device_desc(struct ufs_hba *hba,
struct ufs_dev_desc *dev_desc)
{
int err;
+ size_t buff_len;
u8 model_index;
- u8 str_desc_buf[QUERY_DESC_MAX_SIZE + 1] = {0};
- u8 desc_buf[hba->desc_size.dev_desc];
+ u8 *desc_buf;
+
+ buff_len = max_t(size_t, hba->desc_size.dev_desc,
+ QUERY_DESC_MAX_SIZE + 1);
+ desc_buf = kmalloc(buff_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!desc_buf) {
+ err = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }

err = ufshcd_read_device_desc(hba, desc_buf, hba->desc_size.dev_desc);
if (err) {
@@ -6072,7 +6086,10 @@ static int ufs_get_device_desc(struct ufs_hba *hba,

model_index = desc_buf[DEVICE_DESC_PARAM_PRDCT_NAME];

- err = ufshcd_read_string_desc(hba, model_index, str_desc_buf,
+ /* Zero-pad entire buffer for string termination. */
+ memset(desc_buf, 0, buff_len);
+
+ err = ufshcd_read_string_desc(hba, model_index, desc_buf,
QUERY_DESC_MAX_SIZE, true/*ASCII*/);
if (err) {
dev_err(hba->dev, "%s: Failed reading Product Name. err = %d\n",
@@ -6080,15 +6097,16 @@ static int ufs_get_device_desc(struct ufs_hba *hba,
goto out;
}

- str_desc_buf[QUERY_DESC_MAX_SIZE] = '\0';
- strlcpy(dev_desc->model, (str_desc_buf + QUERY_DESC_HDR_SIZE),
- min_t(u8, str_desc_buf[QUERY_DESC_LENGTH_OFFSET],
+ desc_buf[QUERY_DESC_MAX_SIZE] = '\0';
+ strlcpy(dev_desc->model, (desc_buf + QUERY_DESC_HDR_SIZE),
+ min_t(u8, desc_buf[QUERY_DESC_LENGTH_OFFSET],
MAX_MODEL_LEN));

/* Null terminate the model string */
dev_desc->model[MAX_MODEL_LEN] = '\0';

out:
+ kfree(desc_buf);
return err;
}

--
2.17.0


Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Subhash Jadavani <subhashj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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