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Several functions perform out-of-bounds memory accesses (which is UB) #559

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@RalfJung

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I found this code which openly admits to doing OOB accesses:

// This will read (but won't use) bytes out of bound.
// cfg needed because not all targets will have atomic loads that can be lowered
// (e.g. BPF, MSP430), or provided by an external library (e.g. RV32I)
#[cfg(target_has_atomic_load_store = "ptr")]
let mut prev_word = core::intrinsics::atomic_load_unordered(src_aligned);
#[cfg(not(target_has_atomic_load_store = "ptr"))]
let mut prev_word = core::ptr::read_volatile(src_aligned);

This code also looks suspicious, e.g. if this is used to implement 2-byte atomic accesses then there is OOB here:

// Generic atomic read-modify-write operation
unsafe fn atomic_rmw<T, F: Fn(u32) -> u32, G: Fn(u32, u32) -> u32>(ptr: *mut T, f: F, g: G) -> u32 {
let aligned_ptr = align_ptr(ptr);
let (shift, mask) = get_shift_mask(ptr);
loop {
let curval_aligned = intrinsics::atomic_load_unordered(aligned_ptr);
let curval = extract_aligned(curval_aligned, shift, mask);
let newval = f(curval);
let newval_aligned = insert_aligned(curval_aligned, newval, shift, mask);
if __kuser_cmpxchg(curval_aligned, newval_aligned, aligned_ptr) {
return g(curval, newval);
}
}
}
// Generic atomic compare-exchange operation
unsafe fn atomic_cmpxchg<T>(ptr: *mut T, oldval: u32, newval: u32) -> u32 {
let aligned_ptr = align_ptr(ptr);
let (shift, mask) = get_shift_mask(ptr);
loop {
let curval_aligned = intrinsics::atomic_load_unordered(aligned_ptr);
let curval = extract_aligned(curval_aligned, shift, mask);
if curval != oldval {
return curval;
}
let newval_aligned = insert_aligned(curval_aligned, newval, shift, mask);
if __kuser_cmpxchg(curval_aligned, newval_aligned, aligned_ptr) {
return oldval;
}
}
}

I haven't done a thorough audit so there might be more. I found these by grepping for atomic_load_unordered.

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