Re: [PATCH] HID: hyperv: fix fortify write overflow in KUnit device info tests

[Benjamin Tissoires]

On Sep 07 2026, Baoli Zhang wrote:
> allyesconfig fails to build:
> 
>   In function 'fortify_memset_chk',
>       inlined from 'mousevsc_device_info_valid_descriptor':
>   ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:430:25: error: call to
>   '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected
>   write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()?
> 
> Both tests place a report descriptor in bytes allocated past
> struct synthhid_device_info, then memset() it, and derive its address
> from the hid_descriptor member:
> 
>   report = ((u8 *)&info->hid_descriptor) + info->hid_descriptor.bLength;
> 
> Because that expression is a member reference, the fortify checks bound
> the write by sizeof(info->hid_descriptor). bLength is exactly that size
> here, so the remaining room in the member is zero and every write is
> flagged, even though the memory really came from the caller's
> kunit_kzalloc(sizeof(*info) + N).
> 
> Compute the address from the start of info instead, mirroring the
> desc_offset arithmetic that mousevsc_on_receive_device_info() itself
> uses. Deriving from info gives the whole allocation as the object, so
> the writes are no longer attributed to a single member. The result is
> the same address: (u8 *)&info->hid_descriptor is by definition
> (u8 *)info + offsetof(struct synthhid_device_info, hid_descriptor), so
> test behaviour is unchanged.
> 
> sizeof(*info) deliberately is not used for this: hid_descriptor is
> __packed while synthhid_device_info is not, so the struct may carry
> trailing padding and the report would land at the wrong offset.
> 
> Fixes: 83df7b5fa6735 ("HID: hyperv: add KUnit coverage for device info bounds")
> Signed-off-by: Baoli Zhang <baoli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Please always check is a patch is not already pending in linux-next or
in mainline linux.

d0ad81b2b5fe ("HID: hyperv: make pointer arithmetics understandable for
FORTIFY_SOURCE") already fixes this very same issue.

Cheers,
Benjamin

> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c b/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
> index 6579bd19da13a..f1042b36d10b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
> @@ -657,6 +657,25 @@ static struct mousevsc_dev *mousevsc_kunit_alloc_dev(struct kunit *test)
>  	return input_dev;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Address of the report descriptor that mousevsc_on_receive_device_info()
> + * expects immediately after the HID descriptor.
> + *
> + * Computed from the start of @info, mirroring the desc_offset arithmetic in
> + * mousevsc_on_receive_device_info(), rather than from &info->hid_descriptor.
> + * The report lives in the extra bytes the caller allocated past the struct, so
> + * deriving it from the member would leave the fortify checks bounding writes
> + * by sizeof(info->hid_descriptor) and reject them. Note sizeof(*info) cannot
> + * be used instead: hid_descriptor is packed while synthhid_device_info is not,
> + * so the struct may carry trailing padding.
> + */
> +static u8 *mousevsc_kunit_report_desc(struct synthhid_device_info *info)
> +{
> +	return (u8 *)info +
> +	       offsetof(struct synthhid_device_info, hid_descriptor) +
> +	       info->hid_descriptor.bLength;
> +}
> +
>  static void mousevsc_device_info_zero_blength(struct kunit *test)
>  {
>  	struct synthhid_device_info *info;
> @@ -687,7 +706,7 @@ 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 = mousevsc_kunit_report_desc(info);
>  	memset(report, 0x42, 4);
>  
>  	mousevsc_on_receive_device_info(input_dev, info, sizeof(*info) + 4);
> @@ -713,7 +732,7 @@ 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 = mousevsc_kunit_report_desc(info);
>  	memset(report, 0x42, 8);
>  
>  	mousevsc_on_receive_device_info(input_dev, info, sizeof(*info) + 8);
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
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