[PATCH v2 22/63] HID: cp2112: Use struct_group() for memcpy() region

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Fri Aug 20 15:19:55 UTC 2021


On Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 6:01 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos at kernel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2021, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> > In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> > field bounds checking for memcpy(), memmove(), and memset(), avoid
> > intentionally writing across neighboring fields.
> >
> > Use struct_group() in struct cp2112_string_report around members report,
> > length, type, and string, so they can be referenced together. This will
> > allow memcpy() and sizeof() to more easily reason about sizes, improve
> > readability, and avoid future warnings about writing beyond the end of
> > report.
> >
> > "pahole" shows no size nor member offset changes to struct
> > cp2112_string_report.  "objdump -d" shows no meaningful object
> > code changes (i.e. only source line number induced differences.)
> >
> > Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos at kernel.org>
> > Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires at redhat.com>
> > Cc: linux-input at vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
>
> Applied, thanks.
>

Same for this one: it's part of the larger series.

-Kees

>
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