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Message-ID: <560dd92c1f764005b519b038ae82d053@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:40:55 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: 'Kees Cook' <keescook@...omium.org>,
Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@....com>
CC: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@....com>,
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Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] crypto/caam: Avoid GCC constprop bug warning
From: Kees Cook
> Sent: 28 October 2022 22:06
>
> GCC 12 appears to perform constant propagation incompletely(?) and can
> no longer notice that "len" is always 0 when "data" is NULL. Expand the
> check to avoid warnings about memcpy() having a NULL argument:
...
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/caam/desc_constr.h b/drivers/crypto/caam/desc_constr.h
> index 62ce6421bb3f..ddbba8b00ab7 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/caam/desc_constr.h
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/desc_constr.h
> @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static inline void append_data(u32 * const desc, const void *data, int len)
> {
> u32 *offset = desc_end(desc);
>
> - if (len) /* avoid sparse warning: memcpy with byte count of 0 */
> + if (data && len) /* avoid sparse warning: memcpy with byte count of 0 */
> memcpy(offset, data, len);
I'd guess non-constant zero lengths are unlikely?
So how about:
/* Avoid calling memcpy() when there is never a buffer */
if (!__builtin_constant(len) || len)
memcpy(offset, data, len);
Then the test should never actually end up in the object code.
David
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