Re: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 168) of single field "&device->entry" at drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c:103 (size 8)

[Julius Werner]

I can confirm that this warning is a false positive, at least. We're
intentionally copying bytes from beyond the end of the header
structure in this case.

I don't know what kind of kernel system detects this stuff at runtime
and how to silence it. Probably need to add a void pointer cast or
something?

On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 11:46 AM Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear Linux folks,
>
>
> Running Linux v6.2-rc1+ on a motherboard using coreboot as firmware, the
> warning below is shown.
>
> ```
> [    1.630244] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    1.630249] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 168) of
> single field "&device->entry" at
> drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c:103 (size 8)
> [    1.630299] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 150 at
> drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c:103
> coreboot_table_probe+0x1ea/0x210 [coreboot_table]
> [    1.630307] Modules linked in: coreboot_table(+) sg binfmt_misc fuse
> ipv6 autofs4
> [    1.630316] CPU: 1 PID: 150 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted
> 6.2.0-rc1-00097-gaebfba447cae #407
> [    1.630318] Hardware name: ASUS F2A85-M_PRO/F2A85-M_PRO, BIOS
> 4.18-4-gb3dd5af9c5 12/28/2022
> [    1.630320] RIP: 0010:coreboot_table_probe+0x1ea/0x210 [coreboot_table]
> [    1.630326] Code: 08 00 00 00 4c 89 c6 4c 89 04 24 48 c7 c2 50 81 60
> c0 48 c7 c7 98 81 60 c0 4c 89 4c 24 08 c6 05 ab 1e 00 00 01 e8 e1 ca 47
> d3 <0f> 0b 4c 8b 4c 24 08 4c 8b 04 24 e9 35 ff ff ff 41 be ea ff ff ff
> [    1.630329] RSP: 0018:ffffb409c046fc30 EFLAGS: 00010286
> [    1.630332] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffb409c0175018 RCX:
> 0000000000000000
> [    1.630334] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff94222bcd RDI:
> 00000000ffffffff
> [    1.630336] RBP: ffff937a44a06c00 R08: 0000000000000000 R09:
> 00000000ffffdfff
> [    1.630338] R10: ffffb409c046fad8 R11: ffffffff9452a948 R12:
> 0000000000000000
> [    1.630339] R13: ffffb409c0175000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
> ffff937a40beb410
> [    1.630341] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff937abb500000(0063)
> knlGS:00000000f7f43800
> [    1.630343] CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
> [    1.630345] CR2: 00000000f7e3c2cf CR3: 00000001046de000 CR4:
> 00000000000406e0
> [    1.630347] Call Trace:
> [    1.630348]  <TASK>
> [    1.630351]  platform_probe+0x3f/0xa0
> [    1.630357]  really_probe+0xe1/0x390
> [    1.630361]  ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x50/0x90
> [    1.630365]  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x180
> [    1.630369]  driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
> [    1.630372]  __driver_attach+0xd2/0x1c0
> [    1.630375]  ? __pfx___driver_attach+0x10/0x10
> [    1.630378]  bus_for_each_dev+0x78/0xc0
> [    1.630382]  bus_add_driver+0x1a9/0x200
> [    1.630385]  driver_register+0x8f/0xf0
> [    1.630387]  ? __pfx_init_module+0x10/0x10 [coreboot_table]
> [    1.630392]  coreboot_table_driver_init+0x2d/0xff0 [coreboot_table]
> [    1.630397]  do_one_initcall+0x44/0x220
> [    1.630401]  ? kmalloc_trace+0x25/0x90
> [    1.630405]  do_init_module+0x4c/0x1f0
> [    1.630409]  __do_sys_finit_module+0xb4/0x130
> [    1.630413]  __do_fast_syscall_32+0x6f/0xf0
> [    1.630418]  do_fast_syscall_32+0x2f/0x70
> [    1.630421]  entry_SYSCALL_compat_after_hwframe+0x71/0x79
> [    1.630425] RIP: 0023:0xf7f49549
> [    1.630428] Code: 03 74 c0 01 10 05 03 74 b8 01 10 06 03 74 b4 01 10
> 07 03 74 b0 01 10 08 03 74 d8 01 00 00 00 00 00 51 52 55 89 cd 0f 05 cd
> 80 <5d> 5a 59 c3 90 90 90 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00
> [    1.630430] RSP: 002b:00000000ffa7bbbc EFLAGS: 00200292 ORIG_RAX:
> 000000000000015e
> [    1.630433] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000010 RCX:
> 00000000f7f28e09
> [    1.630434] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000568cb4c0 RDI:
> 000000005689fc50
> [    1.630436] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000000ffa7bbbc R09:
> 0000000000000000
> [    1.630437] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000200292 R12:
> 0000000000000000
> [    1.630439] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
> 0000000000000000
> [    1.630442]  </TASK>
> [    1.630443] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> ```
>
> Another user reported this with Linux 6.1.1 in the Arch Linux forum [1].
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=282245
>       "6.1.1-arch1-1 - dmesg"