kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char
authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Thu, 2 Mar 2023 22:49:50 +0000 (14:49 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 11 May 2023 14:03:02 +0000 (23:03 +0900)
commitb9f6845a492de20679b84bda6b08be347c5819da
treeb0123867c566506dbd4b4412f6096b1de30a8cc2
parent9fd4768b09379c5513c3be58d9f9ab57f05a4b0c
kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char

commit b69edab47f1da8edd8e7bfdf8c70f51a2a5d89fb upstream.

Under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, memcpy() will check the size of destination
and source buffers. Defining kernel_headers_data as "char" would trip
this check. Since these addresses are treated as byte arrays, define
them as arrays (as done everywhere else).

This was seen with:

  $ cat /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz >> /dev/null

  detected buffer overflow in memcpy
  kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:1027!
  ...
  RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0xf/0x20
  [...]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ikheaders_read+0x45/0x50 [kheaders]
   kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x1a4/0x2f0
  ...

Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230302112130.6e402a98@kernel.org/
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fixes: 43d8ce9d65a5 ("Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230302224946.never.243-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/kheaders.c