[v11,05/13] powerpc: don't use direct assignation during early boot.

Commit Message

Christophe Leroy April 26, 2019, 4:23 p.m. UTC

In kernel/cputable.c, explicitly use memcpy() instead of *y = *x;
This will allow GCC to replace it with __memcpy() when KASAN is
selected.

Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <[e-mail]>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c  | 13 ++++++++++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
index 1eab54bc6ee9..cd12f362b61f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
@@ -2147,7 +2147,11 @@  void __init set_cur_cpu_spec(struct cpu_spec *s)
 	struct cpu_spec *t = &the_cpu_spec;
 
 	t = PTRRELOC(t);
-	*t = *s;
+	/*
+	 * use memcpy() instead of *t = *s so that GCC replaces it
+	 * by __memcpy() when KASAN is active
+	 */
+	memcpy(t, s, sizeof(*t));
 
 	*PTRRELOC(&cur_cpu_spec) = &the_cpu_spec;
 }
@@ -2161,8 +2165,11 @@  static struct cpu_spec * __init setup_cpu_spec(unsigned long offset,
 	t = PTRRELOC(t);
 	old = *t;
 
-	/* Copy everything, then do fixups */
-	*t = *s;
+	/*
+	 * Copy everything, then do fixups. Use memcpy() instead of *t = *s
+	 * so that GCC replaces it by __memcpy() when KASAN is active
+	 */
+	memcpy(t, s, sizeof(*t));
 
 	/*
 	 * If we are overriding a previous value derived from the real
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
index 7017156168e8..d3b0d543d924 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
@@ -1264,8 +1264,14 @@  static void __init prom_check_platform_support(void)
 	int prop_len = prom_getproplen(prom.chosen,
 				       "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support");
 
-	/* First copy the architecture vec template */
-	ibm_architecture_vec = ibm_architecture_vec_template;
+	/*
+	 * First copy the architecture vec template
+	 *
+	 * use memcpy() instead of *vec = *vec_template so that GCC replaces it
+	 * by __memcpy() when KASAN is active
+	 */
+	memcpy(&ibm_architecture_vec, &ibm_architecture_vec_template,
+	       sizeof(ibm_architecture_vec));
 
 	if (prop_len > 1) {
 		int i;