Re: [PATCH] net: phy: smsc: fix buffer overflow in memcpy

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 11:13:08 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:40:46 +0200

> The memcpy annotation triggers for a fixed-length buffer copy:
>
> In file included from /git/arm-soc/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h:30:0,
> from /git/arm-soc/arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h:21,
> from /git/arm-soc/include/linux/spinlock.h:87,
> from /git/arm-soc/include/linux/seqlock.h:35,
> from /git/arm-soc/include/linux/time.h:5,
> from /git/arm-soc/include/linux/stat.h:21,
> from /git/arm-soc/include/linux/module.h:10,
> from /git/arm-soc/drivers/net/phy/smsc.c:20:
> In function 'memcpy',
> inlined from 'smsc_get_strings' at /git/arm-soc/drivers/net/phy/smsc.c:166:3:
> /git/arm-soc/include/linux/string.h:309:4: error: call to '__read_overflow2' declared with attribute error: detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter
>
> Using strncpy instead of memcpy should do the right thing here.
>
> Fixes: 030a89028db0 ("net: phy: smsc: Implement PHY statistics")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

APplied to net-next, thanks Arnd.