ima/evm: Fix type mismatch

The endianness of a variable written to the measurement list cannot be
determined at compile time, as it depends on the value of the
ima_canonical_fmt global variable (set through a kernel option with the
same name if the machine is big endian).

If ima_canonical_fmt is false, the endianness of a variable is the same as
the machine; if ima_canonical_fmt is true, the endianness is little endian.
The warning arises due to this type of instruction:

var = cpu_to_leXX(var)

which tries to assign a value in little endian to a variable with native
endianness (little or big endian).

Given that the variables set with this instruction are not used in any
operation but just written to a buffer, it is safe to force the type of the
value being set to be the same of the type of the variable with:

var = (__force <var type>)cpu_to_leXX(var)

Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>

Author: robertosassu

security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c

@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ int evm_read_protected_xattrs(struct dentry *dentry, u8 *buffer,
 			size = sizeof(u32);
 			if (buffer) {
 				if (canonical_fmt)
-					rc = cpu_to_le32(rc);
+					rc = (__force int)cpu_to_le32(rc);
 
 				*(u32 *)(buffer + total_size) = rc;
 			}

security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c

@@ -598,8 +598,8 @@ static int ima_calc_field_array_hash_tfm(struct ima_field_data *field_data,
 		u8 buffer[IMA_EVENT_NAME_LEN_MAX + 1] = { 0 };
 		u8 *data_to_hash = field_data[i].data;
 		u32 datalen = field_data[i].len;
-		u32 datalen_to_hash =
-		    !ima_canonical_fmt ? datalen : cpu_to_le32(datalen);
+		u32 datalen_to_hash = !ima_canonical_fmt ?
+				datalen : (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(datalen);
 
 		if (strcmp(td->name, IMA_TEMPLATE_IMA_NAME) != 0) {
 			rc = crypto_shash_update(shash,

security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c

@@ -147,15 +147,15 @@ int ima_measurements_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 	 * PCR used defaults to the same (config option) in
 	 * little-endian format, unless set in policy
 	 */
-	pcr = !ima_canonical_fmt ? e->pcr : cpu_to_le32(e->pcr);
+	pcr = !ima_canonical_fmt ? e->pcr : (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(e->pcr);
 	ima_putc(m, &pcr, sizeof(e->pcr));
 
 	/* 2nd: template digest */
 	ima_putc(m, e->digests[ima_sha1_idx].digest, TPM_DIGEST_SIZE);
 
 	/* 3rd: template name size */
 	namelen = !ima_canonical_fmt ? strlen(template_name) :
-		cpu_to_le32(strlen(template_name));
+		(__force u32)cpu_to_le32(strlen(template_name));
 	ima_putc(m, &namelen, sizeof(namelen));
 
 	/* 4th:  template name */
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ int ima_measurements_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 
 	if (!is_ima_template) {
 		template_data_len = !ima_canonical_fmt ? e->template_data_len :
-			cpu_to_le32(e->template_data_len);
+			(__force u32)cpu_to_le32(e->template_data_len);
 		ima_putc(m, &template_data_len, sizeof(e->template_data_len));
 	}
 

security/integrity/ima/ima_template_lib.c

@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@ static void ima_show_template_data_binary(struct seq_file *m,
 	    strlen(field_data->data) : field_data->len;
 
 	if (show != IMA_SHOW_BINARY_NO_FIELD_LEN) {
-		u32 field_len = !ima_canonical_fmt ? len : cpu_to_le32(len);
+		u32 field_len = !ima_canonical_fmt ?
+				len : (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(len);
 
 		ima_putc(m, &field_len, sizeof(field_len));
 	}
@@ -570,9 +571,9 @@ static int ima_eventinodedac_init_common(struct ima_event_data *event_data,
 
 	if (ima_canonical_fmt) {
 		if (sizeof(id) == sizeof(u16))
-			id = cpu_to_le16(id);
+			id = (__force u16)cpu_to_le16(id);
 		else
-			id = cpu_to_le32(id);
+			id = (__force u32)cpu_to_le32(id);
 	}
 
 	return ima_write_template_field_data((void *)&id, sizeof(id),
@@ -607,15 +608,15 @@ int ima_eventinodemode_init(struct ima_event_data *event_data,
 			    struct ima_field_data *field_data)
 {
 	struct inode *inode;
-	umode_t mode;
+	u16 mode;
 
 	if (!event_data->file)
 		return 0;
 
 	inode = file_inode(event_data->file);
 	mode = inode->i_mode;
 	if (ima_canonical_fmt)
-		mode = cpu_to_le16(mode);
+		mode = (__force u16)cpu_to_le16(mode);
 
 	return ima_write_template_field_data((char *)&mode, sizeof(mode),
 					     DATA_FMT_UINT, field_data);