linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 17/41] sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors

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Date:   Mon,  4 Oct 2021 14:52:08 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 17/41] sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

[ Upstream commit fc7c028dcdbfe981bca75d2a7b95f363eb691ef3 ]

The sparc mdesc code does pointer games with 'struct mdesc_hdr', but
didn't describe to the compiler how that header is then followed by the
data that the header describes.

As a result, gcc is now unhappy since it does stricter pointer range
tracking, and doesn't understand about how these things work.  This
results in various errors like:

    arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function ‘mdesc_node_by_name’:
    arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:647:22: error: ‘strcmp’ reading 1 or more bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
      647 |                 if (!strcmp(names + ep[ret].name_offset, name))
          |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

which are easily avoided by just describing 'struct mdesc_hdr' better,
and making the node_block() helper function look into that unsized
data[] that follows the header.

This makes the sparc64 build happy again at least for my cross-compiler
version (gcc version 11.2.1).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi4NW3NC0xWykkw=6LnjQD6D_rtRtxY9g8gQAJXtQMi8A@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
index 6f80936e0eea..75445ba7e237 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct mdesc_hdr {
 	u32	node_sz; /* node block size */
 	u32	name_sz; /* name block size */
 	u32	data_sz; /* data block size */
+	char	data[];
 } __attribute__((aligned(16)));
 
 struct mdesc_elem {
@@ -369,7 +370,7 @@ out:
 
 static struct mdesc_elem *node_block(struct mdesc_hdr *mdesc)
 {
-	return (struct mdesc_elem *) (mdesc + 1);
+	return (struct mdesc_elem *) mdesc->data;
 }
 
 static void *name_block(struct mdesc_hdr *mdesc)
-- 
2.33.0