Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Check for NULL header value

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 04:19:34PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> When building with -Warray-bounds, the following warning is emitted:
> 
> In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:253,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/page_32.h:22,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:14,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:12,
>                  from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:60,
>                  from ./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:7,
>                  from ./include/linux/preempt.h:78,
>                  from ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:27,
>                  from ./include/linux/rculist.h:11,
>                  from ./include/linux/sched/signal.h:5,
>                  from ./drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h:17,
>                  from drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c:7:
> In function 'memcpy',
>     inlined from 'wlanhdr_to_ethhdr' at drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c:1554:2:
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:41:33: warning: '__builtin_memcpy' offset [0, 5] is out of the bounds [0, 0] [-Warray-bounds]
>    41 | #define __underlying_memcpy     __builtin_memcpy
>       |                                 ^
> 
> This is because the compiler sees it is possible for "ptr" to be a NULL
> value, and concludes that it has zero size and attempts to copy to it
> would overflow. Instead, detect the NULL return and error out early.
> 
> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>
> Cc: Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
> index 51a13262a226..93b0aa5688e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
> @@ -1191,6 +1191,9 @@ static int wlanhdr_to_ethhdr(struct recv_frame *precvframe)
>  	u8	*ptr = get_recvframe_data(precvframe); /*  point to frame_ctrl field */
>  	struct rx_pkt_attrib *pattrib = &precvframe->attrib;
>  
> +	if (!ptr)
> +		return _FAIL;

Same objection as on the other staging driver change, this is not the
correct way to solve this.

thanks,

greg k-h