Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx4: Avoid field-overflowing memcpy()

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Jun 21 2021 - 20:05:55 EST


On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:37:44PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> field bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid
> intentionally writing across neighboring array fields.
>
> Use the ether_addr_copy() helper instead, as already done for smac.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason