acrn-kernel/arch/arm/lib
Kursad Oney 242ba2e20b 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: 1da177e4c3 ("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>
2023-11-20 11:52:06 +01:00
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Makefile
ashldi3.S
ashrdi3.S
backtrace-clang.S
backtrace.S
bitops.h
bswapsdi2.S
call_with_stack.S
changebit.S
clear_user.S
clearbit.S
copy_from_user.S
copy_page.S
copy_template.S
copy_to_user.S
csumipv6.S
csumpartial.S
csumpartialcopy.S
csumpartialcopygeneric.S
csumpartialcopyuser.S
delay-loop.S
delay.c
div64.S
findbit.S
getuser.S
io-readsb.S
io-readsl.S
io-readsw-armv3.S
io-readsw-armv4.S
io-writesb.S
io-writesl.S
io-writesw-armv3.S
io-writesw-armv4.S
lib1funcs.S
lshrdi3.S
memchr.S
memcpy.S
memmove.S
memset.S ARM: 9321/1: memset: cast the constant byte to unsigned char 2023-11-20 11:52:06 +01:00
muldi3.S
putuser.S
setbit.S
strchr.S
strrchr.S
testchangebit.S
testclearbit.S
testsetbit.S
uaccess_with_memcpy.c
ucmpdi2.S
xor-neon.c