linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the pstore tree

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:35:31 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Linux-Next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the pstore tree

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Kees,
>
> After merging the pstore tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) produced this warning:
>
> In file included from include/linux/rcupdate.h:38:0,
>                  from include/linux/idr.h:18,
>                  from include/linux/kernfs.h:14,
>                  from include/linux/sysfs.h:15,
>                  from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
>                  from include/linux/device.h:17,
>                  from fs/pstore/ram_core.c:17:
> fs/pstore/ram_core.c: In function 'buffer_size_add':
> include/linux/spinlock.h:246:3: warning: 'flags' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>    _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags); \
>    ^
> fs/pstore/ram_core.c:78:16: note: 'flags' was declared here
>   unsigned long flags;
>                 ^
> In file included from include/linux/rcupdate.h:38:0,
>                  from include/linux/idr.h:18,
>                  from include/linux/kernfs.h:14,
>                  from include/linux/sysfs.h:15,
>                  from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
>                  from include/linux/device.h:17,
>                  from fs/pstore/ram_core.c:17:
> fs/pstore/ram_core.c: In function 'buffer_start_add':
> include/linux/spinlock.h:246:3: warning: 'flags' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>    _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags); \
>    ^
> fs/pstore/ram_core.c:56:16: note: 'flags' was declared here
>   unsigned long flags;
>                 ^
>
> Introduced by commit
>
>   95937ddce59a ("pstore: Allow prz to control need for locking")
>
> They appear to be a very noisy false positives. :-(

Hah. Ironically, I ran sparse against this code to make sure it would
be happy with the conditional locking, and totally missed the flags
bit. I'll switch it to explicitly initialize flags to silence this.

Thanks!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security