[2/2] rtc: s5m: Remove VLA usage

Commit Message

Gustavo A. R. Silva March 10, 2018, 6:27 a.m. UTC

In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them
with fixed-length arrays instead.

From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code
evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we
can end up having segfaults 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 <[e-mail]>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Comments

Krzysztof Kozlowski March 12, 2018, 11:14 a.m. UTC | #1

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 7:27 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them
> with fixed-length arrays instead.
>
> From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
> a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code
> evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we
> can end up having segfaults 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 <[e-mail]>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[e-mail]>

Best regards,
Krzysztof

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c
index 4c363de..8428455 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@  enum {
 	RTC_MONTH,
 	RTC_YEAR1,
 	RTC_YEAR2,
+	/* Make sure this is always the last enum name. */
+	RTC_MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS
 };
 
 /*
@@ -378,7 +380,7 @@  static void s5m8763_tm_to_data(struct rtc_time *tm, u8 *data)
 static int s5m_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
 {
 	struct s5m_rtc_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[RTC_MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	int ret;
 
 	if (info->regs->read_time_udr_mask) {
@@ -424,7 +426,7 @@  static int s5m_rtc_read_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
 static int s5m_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
 {
 	struct s5m_rtc_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[RTC_MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	switch (info->device_type) {
@@ -461,7 +463,7 @@  static int s5m_rtc_set_time(struct device *dev, struct rtc_time *tm)
 static int s5m_rtc_read_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm)
 {
 	struct s5m_rtc_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[RTC_MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	unsigned int val;
 	int ret, i;
 
@@ -511,7 +513,7 @@  static int s5m_rtc_read_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm)
 
 static int s5m_rtc_stop_alarm(struct s5m_rtc_info *info)
 {
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[RTC_MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	int ret, i;
 	struct rtc_time tm;
 
@@ -556,7 +558,7 @@  static int s5m_rtc_stop_alarm(struct s5m_rtc_info *info)
 static int s5m_rtc_start_alarm(struct s5m_rtc_info *info)
 {
 	int ret;
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[RTC_MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	u8 alarm0_conf;
 	struct rtc_time tm;
 
@@ -609,7 +611,7 @@  static int s5m_rtc_start_alarm(struct s5m_rtc_info *info)
 static int s5m_rtc_set_alarm(struct device *dev, struct rtc_wkalrm *alrm)
 {
 	struct s5m_rtc_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
-	u8 data[info->regs->regs_count];
+	u8 data[RTC_MAX_NUM_TIME_REGS];
 	int ret;
 
 	switch (info->device_type) {