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powerpc: make feature-fixup tests fortify-safe

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Testing the fortified string functions[1] would cause a kernel panic on
boot in test_feature_fixups() due to a buffer overflow in memcmp.

This boils down to things like this:

  extern unsigned int ftr_fixup_test1;
  extern unsigned int ftr_fixup_test1_orig;

  check(memcmp(&ftr_fixup_test1, &ftr_fixup_test1_orig, size) == 0);

We know that these are asm labels so it is safe to read up to 'size'
bytes at those addresses.

However, because we have passed the address of a single unsigned int to
memcmp, the compiler believes the underlying object is in fact a single
unsigned int.  So if size > sizeof(unsigned int), there will be a panic
at runtime.

We can fix this by changing the types: instead of calling the asm labels
unsigned ints, call them unsigned int[]s.  Therefore the size isn't
incorrectly determined at compile time and we get a regular unsafe
memcmp and no panic.

[1] http://openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/05/09/2

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497903987-21002-7-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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Daniel Axtens 2017-07-12 14:36:07 -07:00 • committed by Ben Hutchings
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