This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: ath9k: fix fortify warnings
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wifi-ath9k-fix-fortify-warnings.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5d7742199f5d90f8eb5f704267c5d165e307468f
Author: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jul 24 13:11:07 2023 +0300
wifi: ath9k: fix fortify warnings
[ Upstream commit 810e41cebb6c6e394f2068f839e1a3fc745a5dcc ]
When compiling with gcc 13.1 and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y,
I've noticed the following:
In function ‘fortify_memcpy_chk’,
inlined from ‘ath_tx_complete_aggr’ at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:556:4,
inlined from ‘ath_tx_process_buffer’ at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:773:3:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:529:25: warning: call to ‘__read_overflow2_field’
declared with attribute warning: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter);
maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
529 | __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function ‘fortify_memcpy_chk’,
inlined from ‘ath_tx_count_frames’ at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:473:3,
inlined from ‘ath_tx_complete_aggr’ at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:572:2,
inlined from ‘ath_tx_process_buffer’ at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c:773:3:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:529:25: warning: call to ‘__read_overflow2_field’
declared with attribute warning: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter);
maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
529 | __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In both cases, the compiler complains on:
memcpy(ba, &ts->ba_low, WME_BA_BMP_SIZE >> 3);
which is the legal way to copy both 'ba_low' and following 'ba_high'
members of 'struct ath_tx_status' at once (that is, issue one 8-byte
'memcpy()' for two 4-byte fields). Since the fortification logic seems
interprets this trick as an attempt to overread 4-byte 'ba_low', silence
relevant warnings by using the convenient 'struct_group()' quirk.
Suggested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230620080855.396851-2-dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h
index af44b33814ddc..f03d792732da7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h
@@ -115,8 +115,10 @@ struct ath_tx_status {
u8 qid;
u16 desc_id;
u8 tid;
- u32 ba_low;
- u32 ba_high;
+ struct_group(ba,
+ u32 ba_low;
+ u32 ba_high;
+ );
u32 evm0;
u32 evm1;
u32 evm2;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
index ba271a10d4ab1..eeabdd67fbccd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ static void ath_tx_count_frames(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_buf *bf,
isaggr = bf_isaggr(bf);
if (isaggr) {
seq_st = ts->ts_seqnum;
- memcpy(ba, &ts->ba_low, WME_BA_BMP_SIZE >> 3);
+ memcpy(ba, &ts->ba, WME_BA_BMP_SIZE >> 3);
}
while (bf) {
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static void ath_tx_complete_aggr(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq,
if (isaggr && txok) {
if (ts->ts_flags & ATH9K_TX_BA) {
seq_st = ts->ts_seqnum;
- memcpy(ba, &ts->ba_low, WME_BA_BMP_SIZE >> 3);
+ memcpy(ba, &ts->ba, WME_BA_BMP_SIZE >> 3);
} else {
/*
* AR5416 can become deaf/mute when BA
