Re: [PATCH] ARM: kprobes: Fix false positive with FORTIFY_SOURCE

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:40:27 -0400
William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/22/18 5:30 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The arm compiler internally interprets an inline assembly label
> > as an unsigned long value, not a pointer. As a result, under
> > CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, the size of the array pointed to by an address
> > of a label is 4 bytes, which was tripping the runtime checks. Instead,
> > we can just cast the label (as done with the size calculations earlier)
> > to avoid the problem.
> > 
> > Reported-by: William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 6974f0c4555e ("include/linux/string.h: add the option of fortified string.h functions")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
> > index b2aa9b32bff2..2c118a6ab358 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
> > @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ int arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op, struct kprobe *or
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	/* Copy arch-dep-instance from template. */
> > -	memcpy(code, &optprobe_template_entry,
> > +	memcpy(code, (unsigned char *)optprobe_template_entry,
> >  			TMPL_END_IDX * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
> >  
> >  	/* Adjust buffer according to instruction. */
> > 
> 
> The patch fixes the issue for kretprobes.  It looks good to me.

This looks good to me too. Thank you for finding and fixing it :)

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Will


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