Re: [PATCH] infiniband: avoid overflow warning

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Moni Shoua <monis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> --- a/include/rdma/ib_addr.h
>>> +++ b/include/rdma/ib_addr.h
>>> @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ static inline int rdma_ip2gid(struct sockaddr *addr, union ib_gid *gid)
>>>                                        (struct in6_addr *)gid);
>>>                 break;
>>>         case AF_INET6:
>>> -               memcpy(gid->raw, &((struct sockaddr_in6 *)addr)->sin6_addr, 16);
>>> +               *(struct in6_addr *)&gid->raw =
>>> +                       ((struct sockaddr_in6 *)addr)->sin6_addr;

This seems reasonable.

>>>                 break;
>>>         default:
>>>                 return -EINVAL;
>> what happens if you replace 16 with sizeof(struct in6_addr)?
>
> Same thing: the problem is that gcc already knows the size of the structure we
> pass in here, and it is in fact shorter.

So gcc is ignoring both the cast (to 16 byte struct in6_addr) and the
caller's actual 128 byte struct sockaddr_storage, and looking only at
struct sockaddr? That seems really weird.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security