[PATCH] coda: Avoid partial allocation of sig_inputArgs

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Jan 27 2023 - 17:39:34 EST


GCC does not like having a partially allocation object, since it cannot
reason about it for bounds checking when it is passed to other code.
Instead, fully allocate sig_inputArgs. (Alternatively, sig_inputArgs
should be defined as a struct coda_in_hdr, if it is actually not using
any other part of the union.) Seen under GCC 13:

../fs/coda/upcall.c: In function 'coda_upcall':
../fs/coda/upcall.c:801:22: warning: array subscript 'union inputArgs[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'unsigned char[20]' [-Warray-bounds=]
801 | sig_inputArgs->ih.opcode = CODA_SIGNAL;
| ^~

Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: coda@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: codalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/coda/upcall.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/coda/upcall.c b/fs/coda/upcall.c
index 59f6cfd06f96..cd6a3721f6f6 100644
--- a/fs/coda/upcall.c
+++ b/fs/coda/upcall.c
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ static int coda_upcall(struct venus_comm *vcp,
sig_req = kmalloc(sizeof(struct upc_req), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sig_req) goto exit;

- sig_inputArgs = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct coda_in_hdr), GFP_KERNEL);
+ sig_inputArgs = kvzalloc(sizeof(*sig_inputArgs), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sig_inputArgs) {
kfree(sig_req);
goto exit;
--
2.34.1