[PATCH] HID: hyperv: make pointer arithmetics understandable for FORTIFY_SOURCE

From: Jiri Kosina

Date: Fri Aug 21 2026 - 07:01:17 EST


From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxxx>

Commit 83df7b5fa6735b5084ecd2 ("HID: hyperv: add KUnit coverage for device info
bounds") introduced this piece of code

report = ((u8 *)&info->hid_descriptor) + info->hid_descriptor.bLength;
memset(report, 0x42, 4);

to populate the report descriptor, making use of the fact that the report.
&info->hid_descriptor points to a struct hid_descriptor (which is a fixed-size struct)
GCC's FORTIFY_SOURCE infer the object size from that specific struct field rather than the
outer dynamically allocated info buffer. As a result, writing past sizeof(struct hid_descriptor)
triggers the __write_overflow_field warning.

Calculate the pointer offset using info directly, so the compiler evaluates the
memory bounds against the allocated flexible layout of struct
synthhid_device_info instead of the nested struct.

Fixes: 83df7b5fa6735b5084ecd2 ("HID: hyperv: add KUnit coverage for device info bounds")
Reported-by: Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c b/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
index 6579bd19da13..4a10b24da9fa 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ static void mousevsc_device_info_valid_descriptor(struct kunit *test)

info->hid_descriptor.bLength = sizeof(struct hid_descriptor);
info->hid_descriptor.rpt_desc.wDescriptorLength = cpu_to_le16(4);
- report = ((u8 *)&info->hid_descriptor) + info->hid_descriptor.bLength;
+ report = (u8 *)info + offsetof(struct synthhid_device_info, hid_descriptor) + info->hid_descriptor.bLength;
memset(report, 0x42, 4);

mousevsc_on_receive_device_info(input_dev, info, sizeof(*info) + 4);
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static void mousevsc_device_info_report_desc_oob(struct kunit *test)

info->hid_descriptor.bLength = sizeof(struct hid_descriptor);
info->hid_descriptor.rpt_desc.wDescriptorLength = cpu_to_le16(64);
- report = ((u8 *)&info->hid_descriptor) + info->hid_descriptor.bLength;
+ report = (u8 *)info + offsetof(struct synthhid_device_info, hid_descriptor) + info->hid_descriptor.bLength;
memset(report, 0x42, 8);

mousevsc_on_receive_device_info(input_dev, info, sizeof(*info) + 8);

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs