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Commit 8aa11aa0 authored by Nathan Lynch's avatar Nathan Lynch Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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powerpc/pseries: Enforce hcall result buffer validity and size



[ Upstream commit ff2e185c ]

plpar_hcall(), plpar_hcall9(), and related functions expect callers to
provide valid result buffers of certain minimum size. Currently this
is communicated only through comments in the code and the compiler has
no idea.

For example, if I write a bug like this:

  long retbuf[PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE]; // should be PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE
  plpar_hcall9(H_ALLOCATE_VAS_WINDOW, retbuf, ...);

This compiles with no diagnostics emitted, but likely results in stack
corruption at runtime when plpar_hcall9() stores results past the end
of the array. (To be clear this is a contrived example and I have not
found a real instance yet.)

To make this class of error less likely, we can use explicitly-sized
array parameters instead of pointers in the declarations for the hcall
APIs. When compiled with -Warray-bounds[1], the code above now
provokes a diagnostic like this:

error: array argument is too small;
is of size 32, callee requires at least 72 [-Werror,-Warray-bounds]
   60 |                 plpar_hcall9(H_ALLOCATE_VAS_WINDOW, retbuf,
      |                 ^                                   ~~~~~~

[1] Enabled for LLVM builds but not GCC for now. See commit
    0da6e5fd ("gcc: disable '-Warray-bounds' for gcc-13 too") and
    related changes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240408-pseries-hvcall-retbuf-v1-1-ebc73d7253cf@linux.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent cf56640e
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