UBSAN spat in valid xhci code in Linus's current tree (6.4+)

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 29 2023 - 11:37:00 EST


Hi Kees.

Boris just reported to me a UBSAN splat in the USB xhci driver in
Linus's tree that wasn't present in 6.4-final, and given that no USB
changes are merged yet there, I was confused.

Turns out, I think you all missed a "variable length" structure in the
xhci driver, which UBSAN is calling out a being an overrun, when really
it isn't (it's just written that way...)

The splat is:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/usb/host/xhci-hub.c:231:31
index 1 is out of range for type '__le32 [1]'
CPU: 0 PID: 1556 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.4.0+ #7


And yes, the code there:
ssp_cap->bmSublinkSpeedAttr[offset++] = cpu_to_le32(attr);

is accessing the ssp_cap->bmSublinkSpeedAttr field with is declared as:
_le32 bmSublinkSpeedAttr[1]; /* list of sublink speed attrib entries */

in include/uapi/linux/usb/ch9.h

So perhaps 2d47c6956ab3 ("ubsan: Tighten UBSAN_BOUNDS on GCC") should be
reverted for now? Or this field fixed up to properly be marked as a
variable length array of at least one entry?

thanks,

greg k-h