[PATCH][RFC] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Avoid false-positive memcpy() warning

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Aug 25 2021 - 12:07:56 EST


In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
field bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid
intentionally writing across neighboring fields.

Since all the size checking has already happened, use input.pointer
(void *) so memcpy() doesn't get confused about how much is being
written.

Avoids this false-positive warning when run-time memcpy() strict
bounds checking is enabled:

memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 4096) of single field (size 36)
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 357 at drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c:74 run_smbios_call+0x110/0x1e0 [dell_smbios]

Note: is there a missed kfree() in the marked error path?

Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dell.Client.Kernel@xxxxxxxx
Cc: platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c
index 33f823772733..c410d6d920b8 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c
@@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ static int run_smbios_call(struct wmi_device *wdev)
if (obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER)
dev_dbg(&wdev->dev, "SMBIOS call failed: %llu\n",
obj->integer.value);
+ /* output.pointer memory allocation leak? */
return -EIO;
}
- memcpy(&priv->buf->std, obj->buffer.pointer, obj->buffer.length);
+ memcpy(input.pointer, obj->buffer.pointer, obj->buffer.length);
dev_dbg(&wdev->dev, "result: [%08x,%08x,%08x,%08x]\n",
priv->buf->std.output[0], priv->buf->std.output[1],
priv->buf->std.output[2], priv->buf->std.output[3]);
--
2.30.2