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[v8,04/11] powerpc/mm: don't use direct assignation during early boot.

Message ID a4b9dd8f9cd353dbe56ba08a6128de7b81417d01.1551161392.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series KASAN for powerpc/32 | expand

Commit Message

Christophe Leroy Feb. 26, 2019, 5:22 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 <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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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