Given CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y and a recent compiler,
commit 439a1bcac648 ("fortify: Use __builtin_dynamic_object_size() when
available") produces the warning below and an oops.

    Searching for RedBoot partition table in 50000000.flash at offset 0x7e0000
    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: lib/string_helpers.c:1035 at 0xc029e04c, CPU#0: swapper/0/1
    memcmp: detected buffer overflow: 15 byte read of buffer size 14
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.19.0 #1 NONE

As Kees said, "'names' is pointing to the final 'namelen' many bytes
of the allocation ... 'namelen' could be basically any length at all.
This fortify warning looks legit to me -- this code used to be reading
beyond the end of the allocation."

Since the size of the dynamic allocation is calculated with strlen()
we can use strcmp() instead of memcmp() and remain within bounds.

Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202602151911.AD092DFFCD@keescook/
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
---
 drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c b/drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c
index 3b55b676ca6b..c06ba7a2a34b 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/parsers/redboot.c
@@ -270,9 +270,9 @@ static int parse_redboot_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
 
 		strcpy(names, fl->img->name);
 #ifdef CONFIG_MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_READONLY
-		if (!memcmp(names, "RedBoot", 8) ||
-		    !memcmp(names, "RedBoot config", 15) ||
-		    !memcmp(names, "FIS directory", 14)) {
+		if (!strcmp(names, "RedBoot") ||
+		    !strcmp(names, "RedBoot config") ||
+		    !strcmp(names, "FIS directory")) {
 			parts[i].mask_flags = MTD_WRITEABLE;
 		}
 #endif
-- 
2.49.1

On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:01:30 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> Given CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y and a recent compiler,
> commit 439a1bcac648 ("fortify: Use __builtin_dynamic_object_size() when
> available") produces the warning below and an oops.
> 
>     Searching for RedBoot partition table in 50000000.flash at offset 0x7e0000
>     ------------[ cut here ]------------
>     WARNING: lib/string_helpers.c:1035 at 0xc029e04c, CPU#0: swapper/0/1
>     memcmp: detected buffer overflow: 15 byte read of buffer size 14
>     Modules linked in:
>     CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.19.0 #1 NONE
> 
> [...]

Applied to mtd/fixes, thanks!

[1/1] mtd: Avoid boot crash in RedBoot partition table parser
      commit: 8e2f8020270af7777d49c2e7132260983e4fc566

Patche(s) should be available on mtd/linux.git and will be
part of the next PR (provided that no robot complains by then).

Kind regards,
Miquèl