Subject: Re: [PATCH 42/64] net: qede: Use memset_after() for counters

From: Kees Cook <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:07:17 -0700

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 01:58:33PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
> neighboring fields.
> 
> Use memset_after() so memset() doesn't get confused about writing
> beyond the destination member that is intended to be the starting point
> of zeroing through the end of the struct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email-masked]>
> ---
> The old code seems to be doing the wrong thing: starting from not the
> first member, but sized for the whole struct. Which is correct?

Quick ping on this question.

The old code seems to be doing the wrong thing: it starts from the second
member and writes beyond int_info, clobbering qede_lock:

struct qede_dev {
        ...
        struct qed_int_info             int_info;

        /* Smaller private variant of the RTNL lock */
        struct mutex                    qede_lock;
        ...

struct qed_int_info {
        struct msix_entry       *msix;
        u8                      msix_cnt;

        /* This should be updated by the protocol driver */
        u8                      used_cnt;
};

Should this also clear the "msix" member, or should this not write
beyond int_info? This patch does the latter.

-Kees

> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
> index 01ac1e93d27a..309dfe8c94fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qede/qede_main.c
> @@ -2419,7 +2419,7 @@ static int qede_load(struct qede_dev *edev, enum qede_load_mode mode,
>  	goto out;
>  err4:
>  	qede_sync_free_irqs(edev);
> -	memset(&edev->int_info.msix_cnt, 0, sizeof(struct qed_int_info));
> +	memset_after(&edev->int_info, 0, msix);
>  err3:
>  	qede_napi_disable_remove(edev);
>  err2:
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 

-- 
Kees Cook