Messages in this thread | | | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] NFS: Avoid memcpy() run-time warning for struct sockaddr overflows | Date | Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:03:07 +0000 |
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> On Oct 26, 2022, at 19:32, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 09:36:50PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: >> The 'nfs_server' and 'mount_server' structures include a union of >> 'struct sockaddr' (with the older 16 bytes max address size) and >> 'struct sockaddr_storage' which is large enough to hold all the >> supported sa_family types (128 bytes max size). The runtime memcpy() >> buffer overflow checker is seeing attempts to write beyond the 16 >> bytes as an overflow, but the actual expected size is that of 'struct >> sockaddr_storage'. Plumb the use of 'struct sockaddr_storage' more >> completely through-out NFS, which results in adjusting the memcpy() >> buffers to the correct union members. Avoids this false positive run-time >> warning under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE: >> >> memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 28) of single field "&ctx->nfs_server.address" at fs/nfs/namespace.c:178 (size 16) >> >> Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com> >> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202210110948.26b43120-yujie.liu@intel.com >> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> >> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org> > > Friendly ping -- this needs to land in v6.1 to avoid these warnings. > Should I carry this in the hardening tree instead? > > Thanks!
Anna, this is your call since you’re the ‘6.1 nfs client maintainer’...
_________________________________ Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com
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