When booting a CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y kernel compiled with a toolchain that supports __counted_by() (such as clang-18 and newer), there is a panic on boot: [ 2.913770] memcpy: detected buffer overflow: 72 byte write of buffer size 0 [ 2.920834] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1 at lib/string_helpers.c:1027 __fortify_report+0x5c/0x74 ... [ 3.039208] Call trace: [ 3.041643] __fortify_report+0x5c/0x74 [ 3.045469] __fortify_panic+0x18/0x20 [ 3.049209] thermal_zone_device_register_with_trips+0x4c8/0x4f8 This panic occurs because trips is counted by num_trips but num_trips is assigned after the call to memcpy(), so the fortify checks think the buffer size is zero because tz was allocated with kzalloc(). Move the num_trips assignment before the memcpy() to resolve the panic and ensure that the fortify checks work properly. Fixes: 9b0a62758665 ("thermal: core: Store zone trips table in struct thermal_zone_device") Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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