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netdev-linux: Fix unaligned access to rpl_rtnl_link_stats64.
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Compilers are allowed to make alignment assumptions based on the
pointer type passed to memcpy().  We have to cast before using it
to avoid misaligned reads:

  lib/netdev-linux.c:6738:41: runtime error: load of misaligned address
    0x51b000008db4 for type 'const struct rpl_rtnl_link_stats64 *',
    which requires 8 byte alignment
  0x51b000008db4: note: pointer points here
  cc 00 17 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
              ^
   0 0xad2d8 in get_stats_via_netlink lib/netdev-linux.c:6738:17
   1 0x9dcce in netdev_linux_get_stats lib/netdev-linux.c:2293:13
   2 0xee5b8 in netdev_get_stats lib/netdev.c:1722:16
   3 0xc07ad in iface_refresh_stats vswitchd/bridge.c:2795:5
   4 0xbf4fc in iface_create vswitchd/bridge.c:2274:5
   5 0xbf4fc in bridge_add_ports__ vswitchd/bridge.c:1225:21
   6 0x989fc in bridge_add_ports vswitchd/bridge.c:1236:5
   7 0x989fc in bridge_reconfigure vswitchd/bridge.c:952:9
   8 0x9102a in bridge_run vswitchd/bridge.c:3439:9
   9 0xc8976 in main vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c:137:9
  10 0x2a1c9 in __libc_start_call_main
  11 0x2a28a in __libc_start_main
  12 0xb3ff4 in _start (vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd+0x734ff4)

Reported by Clang 18 with UBsan on Ubuntu 24.04.

Casting the original 'void *' pointer returned from nl_attr_get() call
to 'struct rpl_rtnl_link_stats64 *' also technically constitutes an
undefined behavior, since the resulting pointer is not correctly
aligned for the referenced type, but compilers do not insist on that
today.

Fixes: c8c49a9 ("netdev-linux: Properly access 32-bit aligned rtnl_link_stats64 structs.")
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
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igsilya committed Aug 14, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -6735,7 +6735,8 @@ get_stats_via_netlink(const struct netdev *netdev_, struct netdev_stats *stats)
struct rtnl_link_stats64 aligned_lstats;

if (!IS_PTR_ALIGNED(lstats)) {
memcpy(&aligned_lstats, lstats, sizeof aligned_lstats);
memcpy(&aligned_lstats, (void *) lstats,
sizeof aligned_lstats);
lstats = &aligned_lstats;
}
netdev_stats_from_rtnl_link_stats64(stats, lstats);
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