Hi Kees Thanks for the patch Would it make more sense to replace *mem with a structure/union. Something like: https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/patch/20221214-uvc-status-alloc-v4-0-f8e3e2994ebd@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ Regards! On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 07:19, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The memcpy() in uvc_video_decode_meta() intentionally copies across the > length and flags members and into the trailing buf flexible array. > Split the copy so that the compiler can better reason about (the lack > of) buffer overflows here. Avoid the run-time false positive warning: > > memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 12) of single field "&meta->length" at drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c:1355 (size 1) > > Additionally fix a typo in the documentation for struct uvc_meta_buf. > > Reported-by: ionut_n2001@xxxxxxxxx > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216810 > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 4 +++- > include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c > index d2eb9066e4dc..b67347ab4181 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c > @@ -1352,7 +1352,9 @@ static void uvc_video_decode_meta(struct uvc_streaming *stream, > if (has_scr) > memcpy(stream->clock.last_scr, scr, 6); > > - memcpy(&meta->length, mem, length); > + meta->length = mem[0]; > + meta->flags = mem[1]; > + memcpy(meta->buf, &mem[2], length - 2); > meta_buf->bytesused += length + sizeof(meta->ns) + sizeof(meta->sof); > > uvc_dbg(stream->dev, FRAME, > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h b/include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h > index 8288137387c0..a9d0a64007ba 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/uvcvideo.h > @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct uvc_xu_control_query { > * struct. The first two fields are added by the driver, they can be used for > * clock synchronisation. The rest is an exact copy of a UVC payload header. > * Only complete objects with complete buffers are included. Therefore it's > - * always sizeof(meta->ts) + sizeof(meta->sof) + meta->length bytes large. > + * always sizeof(meta->ns) + sizeof(meta->sof) + meta->length bytes large. > */ > struct uvc_meta_buf { > __u64 ns; > -- > 2.34.1 > -- Ricardo Ribalda