This fixes a over-read condition detected by FORTIFY_SOURCE for this line: memcpy(SKB_TO_PKT(skb), &ack_pkt, sizeof(skb->cb));
The error was: In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:8:0, from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:11, from ./include/linux/mm_types_task.h:13, from ./include/linux/mm_types.h:4, from ./include/linux/kmemcheck.h:4, from ./include/linux/skbuff.h:18, from drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c:34: In function 'memcpy', inlined from 'send_atomic_ack.constprop' at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c:998:2, inlined from 'acknowledge' at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c:1026:3, inlined from 'rxe_responder' at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c:1286:10: ./include/linux/string.h:309:4: error: call to '__read_overflow2' declared with attribute error: detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter __read_overflow2(); Daniel Micay noted that struct rxe_pkt_info is 32 bytes on 32-bit architectures, but skb->cb is still 64. The memcpy() over-reads 32 bytes. This fixes it by zeroing the unused bytes in skb->cb. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Cc: Moni Shoua <mo...@mellanox.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.he...@intel.com> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmi...@gmail.com> --- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c index 23039768f541..be944d5aa9af 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c @@ -995,7 +995,9 @@ static int send_atomic_ack(struct rxe_qp *qp, struct rxe_pkt_info *pkt, free_rd_atomic_resource(qp, res); rxe_advance_resp_resource(qp); - memcpy(SKB_TO_PKT(skb), &ack_pkt, sizeof(skb->cb)); + memcpy(SKB_TO_PKT(skb), &ack_pkt, sizeof(ack_pkt)); + memset((unsigned char *)SKB_TO_PKT(skb) + sizeof(ack_pkt), 0, + sizeof(skb->cb) - sizeof(ack_pkt)); res->type = RXE_ATOMIC_MASK; res->atomic.skb = skb; -- 2.7.4