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authorKursad Oney <kursad.oney@broadcom.com>2023-08-22 15:06:06 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-11-20 10:29:19 +0100
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ARM: 9321/1: memset: cast the constant byte to unsigned char
[ Upstream commit c0e824661f443b8cab3897006c1bbc69fd0e7bc4 ] memset() description in ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (and elsewhere) says: The memset function copies the value of c (converted to an unsigned char) into each of the first n characters of the object pointed to by s. The kernel's arm32 memset does not cast c to unsigned char. This results in the following code to produce erroneous output: char a[128]; memset(a, -128, sizeof(a)); This is because gcc will generally emit the following code before it calls memset() : mov r0, r7 mvn r1, #127 ; 0x7f bl 00000000 <memset> r1 ends up with 0xffffff80 before being used by memset() and the 'a' array will have -128 once in every four bytes while the other bytes will be set incorrectly to -1 like this (printing the first 8 bytes) : test_module: -128 -1 -1 -1 test_module: -1 -1 -1 -128 The change here is to 'and' r1 with 255 before it is used. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Kursad Oney <kursad.oney@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/lib/memset.S1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
index ed6d35d9cdb5..a68688f3f3b3 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
ENTRY(mmioset)
ENTRY(memset)
UNWIND( .fnstart )
+ and r1, r1, #255 @ cast to unsigned char
ands r3, r0, #3 @ 1 unaligned?
mov ip, r0 @ preserve r0 as return value
bne 6f @ 1