Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx4: fix build error from usercopy size check

[Tariq Toukan]

On 18/04/2023 14:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The array_size() helper is used here to prevent accidental overflow in
> mlx4_init_user_cqes(), but as this returns SIZE_MAX in case an overflow
> would happen, the logic in copy_to_user() now detects that as overflowing
> the source:
>
> In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:9,
>                   from include/linux/preempt.h:78,
>                   from include/linux/percpu.h:6,
>                   from include/linux/context_tracking_state.h:5,
>                   from include/linux/hardirq.h:5,
>                   from drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c:37:
> In function 'check_copy_size',
>      inlined from 'copy_to_user' at include/linux/uaccess.h:190:6,
>      inlined from 'mlx4_init_user_cqes' at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c:317:9,
>      inlined from 'mlx4_cq_alloc' at drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c:394:10:
> include/linux/thread_info.h:244:4: error: call to '__bad_copy_from' declared with attribute error: copy source size is too small
>    244 |    __bad_copy_from();
>        |    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Move the size logic out, and instead use the same size value for the
> comparison and the copy.
>
> Fixes: f69bf5dee7ef ("net/mlx4: Use array_size() helper in copy_to_user()")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c
> index 4d4f9cf9facb..020cb8e2883f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c
> @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ static void mlx4_cq_free_icm(struct mlx4_dev *dev, int cqn)
>   static int mlx4_init_user_cqes(void *buf, int entries, int cqe_size)
>   {
>   	int entries_per_copy = PAGE_SIZE / cqe_size;
> +	size_t copy_size = array_size(entries, cqe_size);
>   	void *init_ents;
>   	int err = 0;
>   	int i;
> @@ -304,7 +305,7 @@ static int mlx4_init_user_cqes(void *buf, int entries, int cqe_size)
>   	 */
>   	memset(init_ents, 0xcc, PAGE_SIZE);
>   
> -	if (entries_per_copy < entries) {
> +	if (copy_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
>   		for (i = 0; i < entries / entries_per_copy; i++) {
>   			err = copy_to_user((void __user *)buf, init_ents, PAGE_SIZE) ?
>   				-EFAULT : 0;
> @@ -315,7 +316,7 @@ static int mlx4_init_user_cqes(void *buf, int entries, int cqe_size)
>   		}
>   	} else {
>   		err = copy_to_user((void __user *)buf, init_ents,
> -				   array_size(entries, cqe_size)) ?
> +				   copy_size) ?
>   			-EFAULT : 0;
>   	}
>   

Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch.