tree 39bf89a0fa0faad1bfc759e5bf3cd4ef4765ca0d
parent 0238df646e6224016a45505d2c111a24669ebe21
author Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> 1539255977 +0200
committer Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com> 1539328666 +0200

lib/bch: fix possible stack overrun

The previous patch introduced very large kernel stack usage and a Makefile
change to hide the warning about it.

From what I can tell, a number of things went wrong here:

- The BCH_MAX_T constant was set to the maximum value for 'n',
  not the maximum for 't', which is much smaller.

- The stack usage is actually larger than the entire kernel stack
  on some architectures that can use 4KB stacks (m68k, sh, c6x), which
  leads to an immediate overrun.

- The justification in the patch description claimed that nothing
  changed, however that is not the case even without the two points above:
  the configuration is machine specific, and most boards  never use the
  maximum BCH_ECC_WORDS() length but instead have something much smaller.
  That maximum would only apply to machines that use both the maximum
  block size and the maximum ECC strength.

The largest value for 't' that I could find is '32', which in turn leads
to a 60 byte array instead of 2048 bytes. Making it '64' for future
extension seems also worthwhile, with 120 bytes for the array. Anything
larger won't fit into the OOB area on NAND flash.

With that changed, the warning can be enabled again.

Only linux-4.19+ contains the breakage, so this is only needed
as a stable backport if it does not make it into the release.

Fixes: 02361bc77888 ("lib/bch: Remove VLA usage")
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>