[PATCH 2/8] powerpc/rtas: use memmove for potentially overlapping buffer copy
Nathan Lynch via B4 Relay
devnull+nathanl.linux.ibm.com at kernel.org
Tue Mar 7 08:33:41 AEDT 2023
From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
Using memcpy() isn't safe when buf is identical to rtas_err_buf, which
can happen during boot before slab is up. Full context which may not
be obvious from the diff:
if (altbuf) {
buf = altbuf;
} else {
buf = rtas_err_buf;
if (slab_is_available())
buf = kmalloc(RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX, GFP_ATOMIC);
}
if (buf)
memcpy(buf, rtas_err_buf, RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX);
This was found by inspection and I'm not aware of it causing problems
in practice. It appears to have been introduced by commit
033ef338b6e0 ("powerpc: Merge rtas.c into arch/powerpc/kernel"); the
old ppc64 version of this code did not have this problem.
Use memmove() instead.
Fixes: 033ef338b6e0 ("powerpc: Merge rtas.c into arch/powerpc/kernel")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 31175b34856a..9256cfaa8b6f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ static char *__fetch_rtas_last_error(char *altbuf)
buf = kmalloc(RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX, GFP_ATOMIC);
}
if (buf)
- memcpy(buf, rtas_err_buf, RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX);
+ memmove(buf, rtas_err_buf, RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX);
}
return buf;
--
2.39.1
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