[PATCH] mod_devicetable: Enlarge the maximum platform_device_id name length

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Apr 15 2025 - 19:15:07 EST


The 20 byte length of struct platform_device_id::name is not long enough
for many devices (especially regulators), where the string initialization
is getting truncated and missing the trailing NUL byte. This is seen
with GCC 15's -Wunterminated-string-initialization option:

drivers/regulator/hi6421v530-regulator.c:189:19: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (21 chars into 20 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
189 | { .name = "hi6421v530-regulator" },
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/regulator/hi6421v600-regulator.c:278:19: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (21 chars into 20 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
278 | { .name = "hi6421v600-regulator" },
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/regulator/lp87565-regulator.c:233:11: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (21 chars into 20 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
233 | { "lp87565-q1-regulator", },
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sound/soc/fsl/imx-pcm-rpmsg.c:818:19: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (21 chars into 20 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
818 | { .name = "rpmsg-micfil-channel" },
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-als.c:457:25: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (21 chars into 20 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
457 | .name = "HID-SENSOR-LISS-0041",
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c:366:25: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (21 chars into 20 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
366 | .name = "HID-SENSOR-LISS-0226",
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Increase the length to 24, slightly more than is currently being used by
the affected drivers. The string is used in '%s' format strings and via
the module code, which appears to do its own length encoding. This size
was chosen because there was already a 4 byte hole in the structure:

struct platform_device_id {
char name[20]; /* 0 20 */

/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

kernel_ulong_t driver_data; /* 24 8 */

/* size: 32, cachelines: 1, members: 2 */
/* sum members: 28, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
/* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
};

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Nikhil Agarwal <nikhil.agarwal@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pieter Jansen van Vuuren <pieter.jansen-van-vuuren@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h b/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
index dde836875deb..6077972e8b45 100644
--- a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
+++ b/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ struct dmi_system_id {
#define DMI_MATCH(a, b) { .slot = a, .substr = b }
#define DMI_EXACT_MATCH(a, b) { .slot = a, .substr = b, .exact_match = 1 }

-#define PLATFORM_NAME_SIZE 20
+#define PLATFORM_NAME_SIZE 24
#define PLATFORM_MODULE_PREFIX "platform:"

struct platform_device_id {
--
2.34.1