powerpc/ptrace: Simplify vr_get/set() to avoid GCC warning
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Feb 22 20:47:59 AEDT 2019
On Fri, 2019-02-15 at 06:14:00 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> GCC 8 warns about the logic in vr_get/set(), which with -Werror breaks
> the build:
>
> In function âÂÂuser_regset_copyinâÂÂ,
> inlined from âÂÂvr_setâ at arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:628:9:
> include/linux/regset.h:295:4: error: âÂÂmemcpyâ offset [-527, -529] is
> out of the bounds [0, 16] of object âÂÂvrsaveâ with type âÂÂunion
> <anonymous>â [-Werror=array-bounds]
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c: In function âÂÂvr_setâÂÂ:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:623:5: note: âÂÂvrsaveâ declared here
> } vrsave;
>
> This has been identified as a regression in GCC, see GCC bug 88273.
>
> However we can avoid the warning and also simplify the logic and make
> it more robust.
>
> Currently we pass -1 as end_pos to user_regset_copyout(). This says
> "copy up to the end of the regset".
>
> The definition of the regset is:
> [REGSET_VMX] = {
> .core_note_type = NT_PPC_VMX, .n = 34,
> .size = sizeof(vector128), .align = sizeof(vector128),
> .active = vr_active, .get = vr_get, .set = vr_set
> },
>
> The end is calculated as (n * size), ie. 34 * sizeof(vector128).
>
> In vr_get/set() we pass start_pos as 33 * sizeof(vector128), meaning
> we can copy up to sizeof(vector128) into/out-of vrsave.
>
> The on-stack vrsave is defined as:
> union {
> elf_vrreg_t reg;
> u32 word;
> } vrsave;
>
> And elf_vrreg_t is:
> typedef __vector128 elf_vrreg_t;
>
> So there is no bug, but we rely on all those sizes lining up,
> otherwise we would have a kernel stack exposure/overwrite on our
> hands.
>
> Rather than relying on that we can pass an explict end_pos based on
> the sizeof(vrsave). The result should be exactly the same but it's
> more obviously not over-reading/writing the stack and it avoids the
> compiler warning.
>
> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee>
> Reported-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>
Applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/ca6d5149d2ad0a8d2f9c28cbe3798022
cheers
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