MIPS: fix fortify panic when copying asm exception handlers

With KCFLAGS="-O3", I was able to trigger a fortify-source
memcpy() overflow panic on set_vi_srs_handler().
Although O3 level is not supported in the mainline, under some
conditions that may've happened with any optimization settings,
it's just a matter of inlining luck. The panic itself is correct,
more precisely, 50/50 false-positive and not at the same time.
From the one side, no real overflow happens. Exception handler
defined in asm just gets copied to some reserved places in the
memory.
But the reason behind is that C code refers to that exception
handler declares it as `char`, i.e. something of 1 byte length.
It's obvious that the asm function itself is way more than 1 byte,
so fortify logics thought we are going to past the symbol declared.
The standard way to refer to asm symbols from C code which is not
supposed to be called from C is to declare them as
`extern const u8[]`. This is fully correct from any point of view,
as any code itself is just a bunch of bytes (including 0 as it is
for syms like _stext/_etext/etc.), and the exact size is not known
at the moment of compilation.
Adjust the type of the except_vec_vi_*() and related variables.
Make set_handler() take `const` as a second argument to avoid
cast-away warnings and give a little more room for optimization.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
index a486486b2355..246c6a6b0261 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -2091,19 +2091,19 @@ static void *set_vi_srs_handler(int n, vi_handler_t addr, int srs)
 		 * If no shadow set is selected then use the default handler
 		 * that does normal register saving and standard interrupt exit
 		 */
-		extern char except_vec_vi, except_vec_vi_lui;
-		extern char except_vec_vi_ori, except_vec_vi_end;
-		extern char rollback_except_vec_vi;
-		char *vec_start = using_rollback_handler() ?
-			&rollback_except_vec_vi : &except_vec_vi;
+		extern const u8 except_vec_vi[], except_vec_vi_lui[];
+		extern const u8 except_vec_vi_ori[], except_vec_vi_end[];
+		extern const u8 rollback_except_vec_vi[];
+		const u8 *vec_start = using_rollback_handler() ?
+				      rollback_except_vec_vi : except_vec_vi;
 #if defined(CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)
-		const int lui_offset = &except_vec_vi_lui - vec_start + 2;
-		const int ori_offset = &except_vec_vi_ori - vec_start + 2;
+		const int lui_offset = except_vec_vi_lui - vec_start + 2;
+		const int ori_offset = except_vec_vi_ori - vec_start + 2;
 #else
-		const int lui_offset = &except_vec_vi_lui - vec_start;
-		const int ori_offset = &except_vec_vi_ori - vec_start;
+		const int lui_offset = except_vec_vi_lui - vec_start;
+		const int ori_offset = except_vec_vi_ori - vec_start;
 #endif
-		const int handler_len = &except_vec_vi_end - vec_start;
+		const int handler_len = except_vec_vi_end - vec_start;
 
 		if (handler_len > VECTORSPACING) {
 			/*
@@ -2311,7 +2311,7 @@ void per_cpu_trap_init(bool is_boot_cpu)
 }
 
 /* Install CPU exception handler */
-void set_handler(unsigned long offset, void *addr, unsigned long size)
+void set_handler(unsigned long offset, const void *addr, unsigned long size)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_MICROMIPS
 	memcpy((void *)(ebase + offset), ((unsigned char *)addr - 1), size);