linux-kernel - Re: arm64/acpi: NULL dereference reports from UBSAN at boot

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Date:   Mon, 1 Jun 2020 15:19:23 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: arm64/acpi: NULL dereference reports from UBSAN at boot

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:57 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 23:52, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anyways, it looks like the address of member from NULL subexpression
> > looks problematic.  I wonder if offsetof can be used here?
> >
> > #define ACPI_OFFSET(d, f) ACPI_PTR_DIFF (offsetof(d, f), (void *) 0)
> >
> > Seems to work in my basic test case.  Untested in the kernel.
> >
> > IIUC, ACPI_OFFSET is trying to calculate the difference between the
> > offset of a member of a struct and 0?  Isn't that the tautology `x - 0
> > == x`?
>
> No. ACPI_OFFSET() is just a poor person's version of offsetof().
>
> (Note that it calculates the difference between &(((d *) 0)->f) and
> (void *)0x0, so the 0x0 term is there on both sides)

Got it. So we're trying to avoid including stddef.h?  Can
__builtin_offsetof be used here?
#define ACPI_OFFSET(d, f) ACPI_PTR_DIFF (__builtin_offsetof(d, f), (void *) 0)
The oldest version of GCC in godbolt.org (4.1) supports this builtin.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers