[PATCH] s390/qeth: Split memcpy() of struct qeth_ipacmd_addr_change flexible array

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Sep 26 2022 - 20:40:07 EST


To work around a misbehavior of the compiler's ability to see into
composite flexible array structs (as detailed in the coming memcpy()
hardening series[1]), split the memcpy() of the header and the payload
so no false positive run-time overflow warning will be generated.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20220901065914.1417829-2-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

Cc: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
index 2d4436cbcb47..0ce635b7b472 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
@@ -1530,8 +1530,8 @@ static void qeth_addr_change_event(struct qeth_card *card,
else
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&data->dwork, qeth_l2_dev2br_worker);
data->card = card;
- memcpy(&data->ac_event, hostevs,
- sizeof(struct qeth_ipacmd_addr_change) + extrasize);
+ data->ac_event = *hostevs;
+ memcpy(data->ac_event.entry, hostevs->entry, extrasize);
queue_delayed_work(card->event_wq, &data->dwork, 0);
}

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2.34.1