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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] clk: visconti: Fix undefined behavior bug in struct" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 5ad1e217a2b23aa046b241183bd9452d259d70d0
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2023112230-baggage-playback-8fc5@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

5ad1e217a2b2 ("clk: visconti: Fix undefined behavior bug in struct visconti_pll_provider") 7e626a080bb2 ("clk: visconti: remove unused visconti_pll_provider::regmap")

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 5ad1e217a2b23aa046b241183bd9452d259d70d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:05:27 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] clk: visconti: Fix undefined behavior bug in struct
visconti_pll_provider

struct clk_hw_onecell_data is a flexible structure, which means that it contains flexible-array member at the bottom, in this case array hws:

include/linux/clk-provider.h:
1380 struct clk_hw_onecell_data {
1381 unsigned int num;
1382 struct clk_hw *hws[] __counted_by(num);
1383 };

This could potentially lead to an overwrite of the objects following clk_data in struct visconti_pll_provider, in this case struct device_node *node;, at run-time:

drivers/clk/visconti/pll.h:
16 struct visconti_pll_provider {

 17         void __iomem *reg_base;
 18         struct clk_hw_onecell_data clk_data;
 19         struct device_node *node;

20 };

Notice that a total of 56 bytes are allocated for flexible-array hws at line 328. See below:

include/dt-bindings/clock/toshiba,tmpv770x.h:
14 #define TMPV770X_NR_PLL 7

drivers/clk/visconti/pll-tmpv770x.c:
69 ctx = visconti_init_pll(np, reg_base, TMPV770X_NR_PLL);

drivers/clk/visconti/pll.c:
321 struct visconti_pll_provider * __init visconti_init_pll(struct device_node *np,
322 void __iomem *base,
323 unsigned long nr_plls)
324 {
325 struct visconti_pll_provider *ctx;
...
328 ctx = kzalloc(struct_size(ctx, clk_data.hws, nr_plls), GFP_KERNEL);

struct_size(ctx, clk_data.hws, nr_plls) above translates to sizeof(struct visconti_pll_provider) + sizeof(struct clk_hw *) * 7 == 24 + 8 * 7 == 24 + 56

		  ^^^^
		   |
	allocated bytes for flex array `hws`
$ pahole -C visconti_pll_provider drivers/clk/visconti/pll.o
struct visconti_pll_provider {
	void *                     reg_base;             /*     0     8 */
	struct clk_hw_onecell_data clk_data;             /*     8     8 */
	struct device_node *       node;                 /*    16     8 */
	/* size: 24, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
	/* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
};

And then, after the allocation, some data is written into all members of struct visconti_pll_provider:

332 for (i = 0; i < nr_plls; ++i)
333 ctx->clk_data.hws[i] = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
334

335         ctx->node = np;
336         ctx->reg_base = base;
337         ctx->clk_data.num = nr_plls;

Fix all these by placing the declaration of object clk_data at the end of struct visconti_pll_provider. Also, add a comment to make it clear that this object must always be last in the structure, and prevent this bug from being introduced again in the future.

-Wflex-array-member-not-at-end is coming in GCC-14, and we are getting ready to enable it globally.

drivers/clk/visconti/pll.h +3 -1
index 01d07f1bf01b..c4bd40676da4 100644
@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@
 
 struct visconti_pll_provider {
 	void __iomem *reg_base;
-	struct clk_hw_onecell_data clk_data;
 	struct device_node *node;
+
+	/* Must be last */
+	struct clk_hw_onecell_data clk_data;
 };
 
 #define VISCONTI_PLL_RATE(_rate, _dacen, _dsmen, \