From c0e824661f443b8cab3897006c1bbc69fd0e7bc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kursad Oney Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:06:06 +0100 Subject: ARM: 9321/1: memset: cast the constant byte to unsigned char 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 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 Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Signed-off-by: Kursad Oney Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) --- arch/arm/lib/memset.S | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/arm/lib') diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S index d71ab61430b2..de75ae4d5ab4 100644 --- a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S +++ b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ ENTRY(__memset) ENTRY(mmioset) WEAK(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 -- cgit