Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: fix UBSAN warning using __builtin_offsetof

From: Jung-uk Kim
Date: Wed Jun 10 2020 - 19:31:42 EST


On 20. 6. 10., Kaneda, Erik wrote:
> +JKim (for FreeBSD's perspective)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Subject: [PATCH] ACPICA: fix UBSAN warning using __builtin_offsetof
>>
>> Will reported UBSAN warnings:
>> UBSAN: null-ptr-deref in drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c:459:37
>> UBSAN: null-ptr-deref in arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c:596:6
>>
> Hi,
>
>> Looks like the emulated offsetof macro ACPI_OFFSET is causing these. We
>> can avoid this by using the compiler builtin, __builtin_offsetof.
>>
> This doesn't really fly because __builtin_offsetof is a compiler extension.
>
> It looks like a lot of stddef.h files do this:
>
> #define offsetof(a,b) __builtin_offset(a,b)
>
> So does anyone have objections to ACPI_OFFSET being defined to offsetof()?
>
> This will allow a host OS project project to use their own definitions of offsetof in place of ACPICA's.
> If they don't have a definition for offsetof, we can supply the old one as a fallback.
>
> Here's a patch:
>
> --- a/include/acpi/actypes.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/actypes.h
> @@ -504,11 +504,17 @@ typedef u64 acpi_integer;
> #define ACPI_SUB_PTR(t, a, b) ACPI_CAST_PTR (t, (ACPI_CAST_PTR (u8, (a)) - (acpi_size)(b)))
> #define ACPI_PTR_DIFF(a, b) ((acpi_size) (ACPI_CAST_PTR (u8, (a)) - ACPI_CAST_PTR (u8, (b))))
>
> +/* Use an existing definiton for offsetof */
> +
> +#ifndef offsetof
> +#define offsetof(d,f) ACPI_PTR_DIFF (&(((d *) 0)->f), (void *) 0)
> +#endif
> +
> /* Pointer/Integer type conversions */
>
> #define ACPI_TO_POINTER(i) ACPI_CAST_PTR (void, (acpi_size) (i))
> #define ACPI_TO_INTEGER(p) ACPI_PTR_DIFF (p, (void *) 0)
> -#define ACPI_OFFSET(d, f) ACPI_PTR_DIFF (&(((d *) 0)->f), (void *) 0)
> +#define ACPI_OFFSET(d, f) offsetof (d,f)
> #define ACPI_PHYSADDR_TO_PTR(i) ACPI_TO_POINTER(i)
> #define ACPI_PTR_TO_PHYSADDR(i) ACPI_TO_INTEGER(i)

LGTM.

Jung-uk Kim

>> The non-kernel runtime of UBSAN would print:
>> runtime error: member access within null pointer of type for this macro.
>>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200521100952.GA5360@willie-the-truck/
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/acpi/actypes.h | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/acpi/actypes.h b/include/acpi/actypes.h index
>> 4defed58ea33..04359c70b198 100644
>> --- a/include/acpi/actypes.h
>> +++ b/include/acpi/actypes.h
>> @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ typedef u64 acpi_integer;
>>
>> #define ACPI_TO_POINTER(i) ACPI_CAST_PTR (void, (acpi_size) (i))
>> #define ACPI_TO_INTEGER(p) ACPI_PTR_DIFF (p, (void *) 0)
>> -#define ACPI_OFFSET(d, f) ACPI_PTR_DIFF (&(((d *) 0)->f), (void *)
>> 0)
>> +#define ACPI_OFFSET(d, f) __builtin_offsetof(d, f)
>> #define ACPI_PHYSADDR_TO_PTR(i) ACPI_TO_POINTER(i)
>> #define ACPI_PTR_TO_PHYSADDR(i) ACPI_TO_INTEGER(i)
>>
>> --
>> 2.27.0.rc2.251.g90737beb825-goog
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