Nouveau - Mar 2018 - [PATCH] drm/nouveau/secboot: remove VLA usage

In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular
case directly use macro NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE instead of local
variable cmdline_size. Also, remove cmdline_size as it is not
actually useful anymore.

The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they
can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug
or a security flaw. Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to
lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime
failures that are hard to debug.

Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo at embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
index 6f10b09..2da147b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ acr_ls_msgqueue_post_run(struct nvkm_msgqueue *queue,
 			 struct nvkm_falcon *falcon, u32 addr_args)
 {
 	struct nvkm_device *device = falcon->owner->device;
-	u32 cmdline_size = NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE;
-	u8 buf[cmdline_size];
+	u8 buf[NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE];
 
-	memset(buf, 0, cmdline_size);
+	memset(buf, 0, NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE);
 	nvkm_msgqueue_write_cmdline(queue, buf);
-	nvkm_falcon_load_dmem(falcon, buf, addr_args, cmdline_size, 0);
+	nvkm_falcon_load_dmem(falcon, buf, addr_args,
+			      NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE, 0);
 	/* rearm the queue so it will wait for the init message */
 	nvkm_msgqueue_reinit(queue);
 
-- 
2.7.4

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
> Sent: 13 March 2018 14:48
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular
> case directly use macro NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE instead of local
> variable cmdline_size. Also, remove cmdline_size as it is not
> actually useful anymore.
...
> diff --git
a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
> index 6f10b09..2da147b 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
> @@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ acr_ls_msgqueue_post_run(struct nvkm_msgqueue *queue,
>  			 struct nvkm_falcon *falcon, u32 addr_args)
>  {
>  	struct nvkm_device *device = falcon->owner->device;
> -	u32 cmdline_size = NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE;
> -	u8 buf[cmdline_size];
> +	u8 buf[NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE];
> 
> -	memset(buf, 0, cmdline_size);
> +	memset(buf, 0, NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE);
>  	nvkm_msgqueue_write_cmdline(queue, buf);
> -	nvkm_falcon_load_dmem(falcon, buf, addr_args, cmdline_size, 0);
> +	nvkm_falcon_load_dmem(falcon, buf, addr_args,
> +			      NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE, 0);
I think I'd use 'sizeof (buf)' in both those lines.

	David

Hi David,

On 03/13/2018 11:10 AM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
>> Sent: 13 March 2018 14:48
>> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular
>> case directly use macro NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE instead of local
>> variable cmdline_size. Also, remove cmdline_size as it is not
>> actually useful anymore.
> ...
>> diff --git
a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
>> index 6f10b09..2da147b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c
>> @@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ acr_ls_msgqueue_post_run(struct nvkm_msgqueue
*queue,
>>   			 struct nvkm_falcon *falcon, u32 addr_args)
>>   {
>>   	struct nvkm_device *device = falcon->owner->device;
>> -	u32 cmdline_size = NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE;
>> -	u8 buf[cmdline_size];
>> +	u8 buf[NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE];
>>
>> -	memset(buf, 0, cmdline_size);
>> +	memset(buf, 0, NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE);
>>   	nvkm_msgqueue_write_cmdline(queue, buf);
>> -	nvkm_falcon_load_dmem(falcon, buf, addr_args, cmdline_size, 0);
>> +	nvkm_falcon_load_dmem(falcon, buf, addr_args,
>> +			      NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE, 0);
> 
> I think I'd use 'sizeof (buf)' in both those lines.
> 
Yeah. I like it.

I'll send v2 with that change shortly.

Thanks
--
Gustavo