sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors

fc7c028d · Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> · 2021-09-06 16:06:04 -07:00

The sparc mdesc code does pointer games with 'struct mdesc_hdr', but
didn't describe to the compiler how that header is then followed by the
data that the header describes.

As a result, gcc is now unhappy since it does stricter pointer range
tracking, and doesn't understand about how these things work.  This
results in various errors like:

    arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function ‘mdesc_node_by_name’:
    arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:647:22: error: ‘strcmp’ reading 1 or more bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
      647 |                 if (!strcmp(names + ep[ret].name_offset, name))
          |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

which are easily avoided by just describing 'struct mdesc_hdr' better,
and making the node_block() helper function look into that unsized
data[] that follows the header.

This makes the sparc64 build happy again at least for my cross-compiler
version (gcc version 11.2.1).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi4NW3NC0xWykkw=6LnjQD6D_rtRtxY9g8gQAJXtQMi8A@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: fc7c028dcdbfe981bca75d2a7b95f363eb691ef3
Parents: d6efd3f1

Changes

1 files changed · +2 −1

File	Status	Add	Del	Content
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c	modified	+2	−1	View file

arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c

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diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
index 8e645dd..30f171b 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct mdesc_hdr {
 	u32	node_sz; /* node block size */
 	u32	name_sz; /* name block size */
 	u32	data_sz; /* data block size */
+	char	data[];
 } __attribute__((aligned(16)));
 
 struct mdesc_elem {
@@ -612,7 +613,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdesc_get_node_info);
 
 static struct mdesc_elem *node_block(struct mdesc_hdr *mdesc)
 {
-	return (struct mdesc_elem *) (mdesc + 1);
+	return (struct mdesc_elem *) mdesc->data;
 }
 
 static void *name_block(struct mdesc_hdr *mdesc)