Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Split memcpy of flex-array

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 08:07:41PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> To work around a misbehavior of the compiler's ability to see into
> composite flexible array structs (as detailed in the coming memcpy()
> hardening series[1]), split the memcpy() of the header and the payload
> so no false positive run-time overflow warning will be generated. As it
> turns out, this appears to actually reduce the text size:
> 
> $ size drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o.before drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   22968    5239     232   28439    6f17 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o.before
>   23032    5239     232   28503    6f57 drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.o
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220901065914.1417829-2-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
--
Gustavo

> ---
>  drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> index 23c680d1a0f5..9b111a8262e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> @@ -1131,7 +1131,8 @@ void vmbus_on_msg_dpc(unsigned long data)
>  			return;
>  
>  		INIT_WORK(&ctx->work, vmbus_onmessage_work);
> -		memcpy(&ctx->msg, &msg_copy, sizeof(msg->header) + payload_size);
> +		ctx->msg.header = msg_copy.header;
> +		memcpy(&ctx->msg.payload, msg_copy.u.payload, payload_size);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * The host can generate a rescind message while we
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>