Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Check for NULL header value

[Dan Carpenter]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 04:20:01PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> When building with -Warray-bounds, the following warning is emitted:
> 
> In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:253,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h:22,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:14,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:12,
>                  from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:60,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:7,
>                  from ./include/linux/preempt.h:78,
>                  from ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:27,
>                  from ./include/linux/rculist.h:11,
>                  from ./include/linux/sched/signal.h:5,
>                  from ./drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h:17,
>                  from drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c:7:
> In function 'memcpy',
>     inlined from 'wlanhdr_to_ethhdr' at drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c:1554:2:
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:41:33: warning: '__builtin_memcpy' offset [0, 5] is out of the bounds [0, 0] [-Warray-bounds]
>    41 | #define __underlying_memcpy     __builtin_memcpy
>       |                                 ^
> 
> This is because the compiler sees it is possible for "ptr" to be a NULL
> value,

It's not really possible though.  I bet it's just saying that because of
the NULL check in get_recvframe_data().  Meanwhile we already have
dereferenced "precvframe" so GCC should know that the NULL check can
never be true.

> and concludes that it has zero size and attempts to copy to it
> would overflow. Instead, detect the NULL return and error out early.
> 
> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Straube <straube.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-staging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> index 41bfca549c64..61135c49322b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> @@ -1513,6 +1513,9 @@ static signed int wlanhdr_to_ethhdr(union recv_frame *precvframe)
>  	u8 *ptr = get_recvframe_data(precvframe) ; /*  point to frame_ctrl field */
>  	struct rx_pkt_attrib *pattrib = &precvframe->u.hdr.attrib;
>  
> +	if (!ptr)
> +		return _FAIL;
> +

Can we put a comment to say /* Silence GCC false positive with -Warray-bounds */

We should have a standard comment so that we can grep for this ten years
from now an remove any outdated work arounds.

regards,
dan carpenter