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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 20:41:34 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fcntl: Distribute switch variables for initialization
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:22:43PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements
> cannot be automatically initialized with compiler instrumentation (as
> they are not part of any execution flow). With GCC's proposed automatic
> stack variable initialization feature, this triggers a warning (and they
> don't get initialized). Clang's automatic stack variable initialization
> (via CONFIG_INIT_STACK_ALL=y) doesn't throw a warning, but it also
> doesn't initialize such variables[1]. Note that these warnings (or silent
> skipping) happen before the dead-store elimination optimization phase,
> so even when the automatic initializations are later elided in favor of
> direct initializations, the warnings remain.
>
> To avoid these problems, move such variables into the "case" where
> they're used or lift them up into the main function body.
>
> fs/fcntl.c: In function ‘send_sigio_to_task’:
> fs/fcntl.c:738:20: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
> 738 | kernel_siginfo_t si;
> | ^~
>
> [1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44916
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Ping. Can someone pick this up, please?
Thanks!
-Kees
> ---
> fs/fcntl.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
> index 9bc167562ee8..2e4c0fa2074b 100644
> --- a/fs/fcntl.c
> +++ b/fs/fcntl.c
> @@ -735,8 +735,9 @@ static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p,
> return;
>
> switch (signum) {
> - kernel_siginfo_t si;
> - default:
> + default: {
> + kernel_siginfo_t si;
> +
> /* Queue a rt signal with the appropriate fd as its
> value. We use SI_SIGIO as the source, not
> SI_KERNEL, since kernel signals always get
> @@ -769,6 +770,7 @@ static void send_sigio_to_task(struct task_struct *p,
> si.si_fd = fd;
> if (!do_send_sig_info(signum, &si, p, type))
> break;
> + }
> /* fall-through - fall back on the old plain SIGIO signal */
> case 0:
> do_send_sig_info(SIGIO, SEND_SIG_PRIV, p, type);
>
--
Kees Cook
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