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Message-ID: <49a080e6-4482-0d8a-2360-eba698b92457@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:10:27 +0000
From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Fix warning in mte_get_random_tag()
On 2/11/21 1:35 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 13:57, Vincenzo Frascino
> <vincenzo.frascino@....com> wrote:
>>
>> The simplification of mte_get_random_tag() caused the introduction of the
>> warning below:
>>
>> In file included from arch/arm64/include/asm/kasan.h:9,
>> from include/linux/kasan.h:16,
>> from mm/kasan/common.c:14:
>> mm/kasan/common.c: In function ‘mte_get_random_tag’:
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h:45:9: warning: ‘addr’ is used
>> uninitialized [-Wuninitialized]
>> 45 | asm(__MTE_PREAMBLE "irg %0, %0"
>> |
>>
>> Fix the warning initializing the address to NULL.
>>
>> Note: mte_get_random_tag() returns a tag and it never dereferences the address,
>> hence 'addr' can be safely initialized to NULL.
>>
>> Fixes: c8f8de4c0887 ("arm64: kasan: simplify and inline MTE functions")
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
>> ---
>>
>> This patch is based on linux-next/akpm
>>
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h | 7 ++++++-
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
>> index 3d58489228c0..b2850b750726 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h
>> @@ -40,7 +40,12 @@ static inline u8 mte_get_mem_tag(void *addr)
>> /* Generate a random tag. */
>> static inline u8 mte_get_random_tag(void)
>> {
>> - void *addr;
>> + /*
>> + * mte_get_random_tag() returns a tag and it
>> + * never dereferences the address, hence addr
>> + * can be safely initialized to NULL.
>> + */
>> + void *addr = NULL;
>>
>> asm(__MTE_PREAMBLE "irg %0, %0"
>> : "+r" (addr));
>> --
>> 2.30.0
>>
>
> Might it be better to simply change the asm constraint to "=r" ?
>
Indeed, did not notice the "+r". I will change it accordingly and post v2.
Thanks!
--
Regards,
Vincenzo
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