Re: [PATCH] MIPS: R6: memcpy bugfix - zero length overwrites memory

From: Jonas Gorski
Date: Tue Apr 28 2015 - 07:12:35 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Leonid Yegoshin
<Leonid.Yegoshin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> MIPS R6 version of memcpy has bug - then length to copy is zero
> and addresses are not aligned then it can overwrite a whole memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S b/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
> index 9245e1705e69..7e0250f3aec8 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
> +++ b/arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S
> @@ -514,6 +514,8 @@
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6
> .Lcopy_unaligned_bytes\@:
> + beqz len, .Ldone\@
> + nop
> 1:
> COPY_BYTE(0)
> COPY_BYTE(1)

AFAICT it should never reach that if the amount to copy is zero bytes,
so the check seems to be superfluous:

sltu t2, len, NBYTES <- check for < NBYTES (4/8 bit
depending on 32/64 bit)
and t1, dst, ADDRMASK
PREFS( 0, 1*32(src) )
PREFD( 1, 1*32(dst) )
bnez t2, .Lcopy_bytes_checklen\@ <- skip to
copy_bytes_checklen if < NBYTES
and t0, src, ADDRMASK
PREFS( 0, 2*32(src) )
PREFD( 1, 2*32(dst) )
#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR6
bnez t1, .Ldst_unaligned\@
nop
bnez t0, .Lsrc_unaligned_dst_aligned\@
#else
or t0, t0, t1
bnez t0, .Lcopy_unaligned_bytes\@ <- only outside place to
branch to it, and only reachable if len >= NBYTES bytes.
#endif


And in the loop itself each COPY_BYTE() will already break out if len
becomes zero, so the unconditional b 1b should also never be reached
with len == 0 in that case..

But maybe I overlooked something.


Regards
Jonas
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