net: Add options as a flexible array to struct ip_tunnel_info

Remove the hidden assumption that options are allocated at the end of
the struct, and teach the compiler about them using a flexible array.

With this, we can revert the unsafe_memcpy() call we have in
tun_dst_unclone() [1], and resolve the false field-spanning write
warning caused by the memcpy() in ip_tunnel_info_opts_set().

The layout of struct ip_tunnel_info remains the same with this patch.
Before this patch, there was an implicit padding at the end of the
struct, options would be written at 'info + 1' which is after the
padding.
This will remain the same as this patch explicitly aligns 'options'.
The alignment is needed as the options are later casted to different
structs, and might result in unaligned memory access.

Pahole output before this patch:
struct ip_tunnel_info {
    struct ip_tunnel_key       key;                  /*     0    64 */

    /* XXX last struct has 1 byte of padding */

    /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
    struct ip_tunnel_encap     encap;                /*    64     8 */
    struct dst_cache           dst_cache;            /*    72    16 */
    u8                         options_len;          /*    88     1 */
    u8                         mode;                 /*    89     1 */

    /* size: 96, cachelines: 2, members: 5 */
    /* padding: 6 */
    /* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 1 */
    /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
};

Pahole output after this patch:
struct ip_tunnel_info {
    struct ip_tunnel_key       key;                  /*     0    64 */

    /* XXX last struct has 1 byte of padding */

    /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
    struct ip_tunnel_encap     encap;                /*    64     8 */
    struct dst_cache           dst_cache;            /*    72    16 */
    u8                         options_len;          /*    88     1 */
    u8                         mode;                 /*    89     1 */

    /* XXX 6 bytes hole, try to pack */

    u8                         options[] __attribute__((__aligned__(16))); /*    96     0 */

    /* size: 96, cachelines: 2, members: 6 */
    /* sum members: 90, holes: 1, sum holes: 6 */
    /* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 1 */
    /* forced alignments: 1, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 6 */
    /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(16)));

[1] Commit 13cfd6a6d7ac ("net: Silence false field-spanning write warning in metadata_dst memcpy")

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/53D1D353-B8F6-4ADC-8F29-8C48A7C9C6F1@kernel.org/
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250219143256.370277-3-gal@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c
index 9552a90d4772..c99b95cf9cbb 100644
--- a/net/core/dst.c
+++ b/net/core/dst.c
@@ -286,7 +286,8 @@ struct metadata_dst *metadata_dst_alloc(u8 optslen, enum metadata_type type,
 {
 	struct metadata_dst *md_dst;
 
-	md_dst = kmalloc(sizeof(*md_dst) + optslen, flags);
+	md_dst = kmalloc(struct_size(md_dst, u.tun_info.options, optslen),
+			 flags);
 	if (!md_dst)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -314,7 +315,8 @@ metadata_dst_alloc_percpu(u8 optslen, enum metadata_type type, gfp_t flags)
 	int cpu;
 	struct metadata_dst __percpu *md_dst;
 
-	md_dst = __alloc_percpu_gfp(sizeof(struct metadata_dst) + optslen,
+	md_dst = __alloc_percpu_gfp(struct_size(md_dst, u.tun_info.options,
+						optslen),
 				    __alignof__(struct metadata_dst), flags);
 	if (!md_dst)
 		return NULL;