linux-kernel - [PATCH] netfilter: nf_osf: avoid passing pointer to local var

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Message-Id: <20200429190051.27993-1-arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:00:41 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        coreteam@...filter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_osf: avoid passing pointer to local var

gcc-10 points out that a code path exists where a pointer to a stack
variable may be passed back to the caller:

net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c: In function 'nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init':
cc1: warning: function may return address of local variable [-Wreturn-local-addr]
net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c:171:16: note: declared here
  171 |  struct tcphdr _tcph;
      |                ^~~~~

I am not sure whether this can happen in practice, but moving the
variable declaration into the callers avoids the problem.

Fixes: 31a9c29210e2 ("netfilter: nf_osf: add struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
index 9f5dea0064ea..916a3c7f9eaf 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
@@ -165,12 +165,12 @@ static bool nf_osf_match_one(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 static const struct tcphdr *nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx *ctx,
 						const struct sk_buff *skb,
 						const struct iphdr *ip,
-						unsigned char *opts)
+						unsigned char *opts,
+						struct tcphdr *_tcph)
 {
 	const struct tcphdr *tcp;
-	struct tcphdr _tcph;
 
-	tcp = skb_header_pointer(skb, ip_hdrlen(skb), sizeof(struct tcphdr), &_tcph);
+	tcp = skb_header_pointer(skb, ip_hdrlen(skb), sizeof(struct tcphdr), _tcph);
 	if (!tcp)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -205,10 +205,11 @@ nf_osf_match(const struct sk_buff *skb, u_int8_t family,
 	int fmatch = FMATCH_WRONG;
 	struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx ctx;
 	const struct tcphdr *tcp;
+	struct tcphdr _tcph;
 
 	memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
 
-	tcp = nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(&ctx, skb, ip, opts);
+	tcp = nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(&ctx, skb, ip, opts, &_tcph);
 	if (!tcp)
 		return false;
 
@@ -265,10 +266,11 @@ bool nf_osf_find(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 	const struct nf_osf_finger *kf;
 	struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx ctx;
 	const struct tcphdr *tcp;
+	struct tcphdr _tcph;
 
 	memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
 
-	tcp = nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(&ctx, skb, ip, opts);
+	tcp = nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(&ctx, skb, ip, opts, &_tcph);
 	if (!tcp)
 		return false;
 
-- 
2.26.0