From: Yafang shao <[email protected]>

A build failure has been reported with the following details:

   In file included from include/linux/string.h:390,
                    from include/linux/bitmap.h:13,
                    from include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                    from include/linux/smp.h:13,
                    from include/linux/lockdep.h:14,
                    from include/linux/spinlock.h:63,
                    from include/linux/wait.h:9,
                    from include/linux/wait_bit.h:8,
                    from include/linux/fs.h:6,
                    from kernel/auditsc.c:37:
   In function 'sized_strscpy',
       inlined from '__audit_ptrace' at kernel/auditsc.c:2732:2:
>> include/linux/fortify-string.h:293:17: error: call to '__write_overflow' 
>> declared with attribute error: detected write beyond size of object (1st 
>> parameter)
     293 |                 __write_overflow();
         |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   In function 'sized_strscpy',
       inlined from 'audit_signal_info_syscall' at kernel/auditsc.c:2759:3:
>> include/linux/fortify-string.h:293:17: error: call to '__write_overflow' 
>> declared with attribute error: detected write beyond size of object (1st 
>> parameter)
     293 |                 __write_overflow();
         |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The issue appears to be a GCC bug, though the root cause remains
unclear at this time. For now, let's implement a workaround.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Closes: 
https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/[email protected]/
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Reported-by: "Zhuo, Qiuxu" <[email protected]>
Closes: 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/cy8pr11mb71348e568dbda576f17daff389...@cy8pr11mb7134.namprd11.prod.outlook.com/
Originally-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/202410171059.C2C395030@keescook/
Signed-off-by: Yafang shao <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/auditsc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 279ba5c420a4..561d96affe9f 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -2728,8 +2728,8 @@ void __audit_ptrace(struct task_struct *t)
        context->target_auid = audit_get_loginuid(t);
        context->target_uid = task_uid(t);
        context->target_sessionid = audit_get_sessionid(t);
-       security_task_getlsmprop_obj(t, &context->target_ref);
        strscpy(context->target_comm, t->comm);
+       security_task_getlsmprop_obj(t, &context->target_ref);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2755,8 +2755,8 @@ int audit_signal_info_syscall(struct task_struct *t)
                ctx->target_auid = audit_get_loginuid(t);
                ctx->target_uid = t_uid;
                ctx->target_sessionid = audit_get_sessionid(t);
-               security_task_getlsmprop_obj(t, &ctx->target_ref);
                strscpy(ctx->target_comm, t->comm);
+               security_task_getlsmprop_obj(t, &ctx->target_ref);
                return 0;
        }
 
-- 
2.43.5


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