Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][next] ixgbe: Fix out-bounds warning in ixgbe_host_interface_command()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue May 11 2021 - 11:49:36 EST


Hi all,

On 5/6/21 02:25, Switzer, David wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
>> Gustavo A. R. Silva
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:04 PM
>> To: Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>; Nguyen, Anthony L
>> <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>; David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Jakub
>> Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
>> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>; intel-
>> wired-lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][next] ixgbe: Fix out-bounds warning in
>> ixgbe_host_interface_command()
>>
>> Replace union with a couple of pointers in order to fix the following out-of-
>> bounds warning:
>>
>> CC [M] drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.o
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c: In function
>> ‘ixgbe_host_interface_command’:
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c:3729:13: warning: array
>> subscript 1 is above array bounds of ‘u32[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned int[1]’} [-Warray-
>> bounds]
>> 3729 | bp->u32arr[bi] = IXGBE_READ_REG_ARRAY(hw, IXGBE_FLEX_MNG, bi);
>> | ~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c:3682:7: note: while
>> referencing ‘u32arr’
>> 3682 | u32 u32arr[1];
>> | ^~~~~~
>>
>> This helps with the ongoing efforts to globally enable -Warray-bounds.
>>
>> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
>> Co-developed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 16 +++++++---------
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
> Tested-by: Dave Switzer <david.switzer@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for this, Dave. :)

By the way, we are about to be able to globally enable -Warray-bounds and,
this is one of the last out-of-bounds warnings in linux-next.

Thanks
--
Gustavo