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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 13:04:15 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
Cc: hare <hare@...e.com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] aic7xxx/aic79xx: remove VLAs
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Stephen Kitt <steve@....org> wrote:
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them with
> fixed-length arrays instead.
>
> The arrays fixed here, using the number of constant sections, aren't
> really VLAs, but they appear so to the compiler. Replace the array
> sizes with a pre-processor-level constant instead using ARRAY_SIZE.
>
> This was prompted by https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
-Kees
> ---
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c | 8 ++++----
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h_shipped | 3 +--
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c | 8 ++++----
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_seq.h_shipped | 3 +--
> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c | 3 +--
> 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
> index b560f396ee99..034f4eebb160 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
> @@ -9338,9 +9338,9 @@ ahd_dumpseq(struct ahd_softc* ahd)
> static void
> ahd_loadseq(struct ahd_softc *ahd)
> {
> - struct cs cs_table[num_critical_sections];
> - u_int begin_set[num_critical_sections];
> - u_int end_set[num_critical_sections];
> + struct cs cs_table[NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS];
> + u_int begin_set[NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS];
> + u_int end_set[NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS];
> const struct patch *cur_patch;
> u_int cs_count;
> u_int cur_cs;
> @@ -9456,7 +9456,7 @@ ahd_loadseq(struct ahd_softc *ahd)
> * Move through the CS table until we find a CS
> * that might apply to this instruction.
> */
> - for (; cur_cs < num_critical_sections; cur_cs++) {
> + for (; cur_cs < NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS; cur_cs++) {
> if (critical_sections[cur_cs].end <= i) {
> if (begin_set[cs_count] == TRUE
> && end_set[cs_count] == FALSE) {
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h_shipped b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h_shipped
> index 4b51e232392f..fd64a950ee44 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h_shipped
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h_shipped
> @@ -1186,5 +1186,4 @@ static const struct cs {
> { 759, 763 }
> };
>
> -static const int num_critical_sections = sizeof(critical_sections)
> - / sizeof(*critical_sections);
> +#define NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS ARRAY_SIZE(critical_sections)
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
> index 6612ff3b2e83..e97eceacf522 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
> @@ -6848,9 +6848,9 @@ ahc_dumpseq(struct ahc_softc* ahc)
> static int
> ahc_loadseq(struct ahc_softc *ahc)
> {
> - struct cs cs_table[num_critical_sections];
> - u_int begin_set[num_critical_sections];
> - u_int end_set[num_critical_sections];
> + struct cs cs_table[NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS];
> + u_int begin_set[NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS];
> + u_int end_set[NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS];
> const struct patch *cur_patch;
> u_int cs_count;
> u_int cur_cs;
> @@ -6915,7 +6915,7 @@ ahc_loadseq(struct ahc_softc *ahc)
> * Move through the CS table until we find a CS
> * that might apply to this instruction.
> */
> - for (; cur_cs < num_critical_sections; cur_cs++) {
> + for (; cur_cs < NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS; cur_cs++) {
> if (critical_sections[cur_cs].end <= i) {
> if (begin_set[cs_count] == TRUE
> && end_set[cs_count] == FALSE) {
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_seq.h_shipped b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_seq.h_shipped
> index 07e93fbae706..f37362bc8ece 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_seq.h_shipped
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_seq.h_shipped
> @@ -1304,5 +1304,4 @@ static const struct cs {
> { 875, 877 }
> };
>
> -static const int num_critical_sections = sizeof(critical_sections)
> - / sizeof(*critical_sections);
> +#define NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS ARRAY_SIZE(critical_sections)
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c
> index 21ac265280bf..5f474e490f3e 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm.c
> @@ -451,8 +451,7 @@ output_code()
> fprintf(ofile, "\n};\n\n");
>
> fprintf(ofile,
> -"static const int num_critical_sections = sizeof(critical_sections)\n"
> -" / sizeof(*critical_sections);\n");
> + "#define NUM_CRITICAL_SECTIONS ARRAY_SIZE(critical_sections)\n");
>
> fprintf(stderr, "%s: %d instructions used\n", appname, instrcount);
> }
> --
> 2.11.0
>
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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