linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio-pci: Use cpumask

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:06:35 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Christophe Marie Francois Dupont de Dinechin <cdupontd@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin@...hat.com>, trivial@...nel.org,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] virtio-pci: Use cpumask_available to fix compilation
 error

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 11:48:01AM +0200, Christophe Marie Francois Dupont de Dinechin wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 15 Apr 2022, at 10:48, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 05:08:55PM +0200, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
> >> With GCC 12 and defconfig, we get the following error:
> >> 
> >> |   CC      drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.o
> >> | drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c: In function ‘vp_del_vqs’:
> >> | drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:257:29: error: the comparison will
> >> |  always evaluate as ‘true’ for the pointer operand in
> >> |  ‘vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks + (sizetype)((long unsigned int)i * 8)’
> >> |  must not be NULL [-Werror=address]
> >> |   257 |                         if (vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks[i])
> >> |       |                             ^~~~~~
> >> 
> >> This happens in the case where CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is not defined,
> >> since we typedef cpumask_var_t as an array. The compiler is essentially
> >> complaining that an array pointer cannot be NULL. This is not a very
> >> important warning, but there is a function called cpumask_available that
> >> seems to be defined just for that case, so the fix is easy.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <christophe@...echin.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin@...hat.com>
> > 
> > There was an alternate patch proposed for this by
> > Murilo Opsfelder Araujo. What do you think about that approach?
> 
> I responded on the other thread, but let me share the response here:
> 
> [to muriloo@...ux.ibm.com]
> Apologies for the delay in responding, broken laptop…
> 
> In the case where CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is not defined, we have:
> 
> 	typedef struct cpumask cpumask_var_t[1];
> 
> So that vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks[i] is statically not null (that’s the warning)
> but also a static pointer, so not kfree-safe IMO.


Not sure I understand what you are saying here.

> > 
> > 
> >> ---
> >> drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> >> index d724f676608b..5c44a2f13c93 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
> >> @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ void vp_del_vqs(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> >> 
> >> 	if (vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks) {
> >> 		for (i = 0; i < vp_dev->msix_vectors; i++)
> >> -			if (vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks[i])
> >> +			if (cpumask_available(vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks[i]))
> >> 				free_cpumask_var(vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks[i]);
> >> 	}
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> 2.35.1
> >