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SubjectRe: CVE-2014-9900 fix is not upstream
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 01:34:05PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 21:09 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:24:06AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > ... and then we can file a bug report against the sodding compiler.  Note
> > that
> > struct ethtool_wolinfo {
> >         __u32   cmd;
> >         __u32   supported;
> >         __u32   wolopts;
> >         __u8    sopass[SOPASS_MAX]; // 6, actually
> > };
> > is not going to *have* padding.  Not on anything even remotely sane.
> > If array of 6 char as member of a struct requires 64bit alignment on some
> > architecture, I would really like some of what the designers of that ABI
> > must have been smoking.
>
> try this on x86-64
>
> $ pahole -C ethtool_wolinfo vmlinux
> struct ethtool_wolinfo {
> __u32                      cmd;                  /*     0     4 */
> __u32                      supported;            /*     4     4 */
> __u32                      wolopts;              /*     8     4 */
> __u8                       sopass[6];            /*    12     6 */
>
> /* size: 20, cachelines: 1, members: 4 */
> /* padding: 2 */
> /* last cacheline: 20 bytes */
> };

That would be padding after the structure elements.

I think what was meant is that it won't add padding in the middle of the
structure due to alignment, ie it isn't doing:

struct ethtool_wolinfo {
__u32                      cmd;                  /*     0     4 */
__u32                      supported;            /*     4     4 */
__u32                      wolopts;              /*     8     4 */
<4 bytes padding here>
__u8                       sopass[6];            /*    16     6 */
};

which would have 4 bytes of padding in the middle between wolopts
and sopass.

I would not think it is the compilers job to worry about what is after
your structure elements, since you shouldn't be going there.

--
Len Sorensen

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