x86/boot: Warn on future overlapping memcpy() use

If an overlapping memcpy() is ever attempted, we should at least report
it, in case it might lead to problems, so it could be changed to a
memmove() call instead.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Lasse Collin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
index faa4dc7dc66b..cea140ce6b42 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #include "../string.c"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+static void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 {
 	int d0, d1, d2;
 	asm volatile(
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 	return dest;
 }
 #else
-void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+static void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 {
 	long d0, d1, d2;
 	asm volatile(
@@ -55,10 +55,20 @@ void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 	const unsigned char *s = src;
 
 	if (d <= s || d - s >= n)
-		return memcpy(dest, src, n);
+		return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
 
 	while (n-- > 0)
 		d[n] = s[n];
 
 	return dest;
 }
+
+/* Detect and warn about potential overlaps, but handle them with memmove. */
+void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+{
+	if (dest > src && dest - src < n) {
+		warn("Avoiding potentially unsafe overlapping memcpy()!");
+		return memmove(dest, src, n);
+	}
+	return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
+}