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Message-ID: <1940104.uIXT7tB08N@silver>
Date:   Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:24:11 +0200
From:   Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>
To:     v9fs@...ts.linux.dev, Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Cc:     ericvh@...nel.org, lucho@...kov.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] 9p/net: xen: fix false positive printf format overflow
 warning

On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 12:34:45 PM CEST Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Use the constant to make the compiler happy about this warning:
> net/9p/trans_xen.c: In function ‘xen_9pfs_front_changed’:
> net/9p/trans_xen.c:444:39: warning: ‘%d’ directive writing between 1 and 11 bytes into a region of size 8 [-Wformat-overflow=]
>   444 |                 sprintf(str, "ring-ref%d", i);
>       |                                       ^~
> In function ‘xen_9pfs_front_init’,
>     inlined from ‘xen_9pfs_front_changed’ at net/9p/trans_xen.c:516:8,
>     inlined from ‘xen_9pfs_front_changed’ at net/9p/trans_xen.c:504:13:
> net/9p/trans_xen.c:444:30: note: directive argument in the range [-2147483644, 2147483646]
>   444 |                 sprintf(str, "ring-ref%d", i);
>       |                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> net/9p/trans_xen.c:444:17: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 10 and 20 bytes into a destination of size 16
>   444 |                 sprintf(str, "ring-ref%d", i);
>       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> net/9p/trans_xen.c: In function ‘xen_9pfs_front_changed’:
> net/9p/trans_xen.c:450:45: warning: ‘%d’ directive writing between 1 and 11 bytes into a region of size 2 [-Wformat-overflow=]
>   450 |                 sprintf(str, "event-channel-%d", i);
>       |                                             ^~
> In function ‘xen_9pfs_front_init’,
>     inlined from ‘xen_9pfs_front_changed’ at net/9p/trans_xen.c:516:8,
>     inlined from ‘xen_9pfs_front_changed’ at net/9p/trans_xen.c:504:13:
> net/9p/trans_xen.c:450:30: note: directive argument in the range [-2147483644, 2147483646]
>   450 |                 sprintf(str, "event-channel-%d", i);
>       |                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> net/9p/trans_xen.c:450:17: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 16 and 26 bytes into a destination of size 16
>   450 |                 sprintf(str, "event-channel-%d", i);
>       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> There is no change in logic: there only are a constant number of rings,
> and there also already is a BUILD_BUG_ON that checks if that constant
> goes over 9 as anything bigger would no longer fit the event-channel-%d
> destination size.
> 
> In theory having that size as part of the struct means it could be
> modified by another thread and makes the compiler lose track of possible
> values for 'i' here, using the constant directly here makes it work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
> Message-ID: <20231023233704.1185154-4-asmadeus@...ewreck.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>

> v1->v2:
> - use constant directly instead of going through a local variable
> 
>  net/9p/trans_xen.c | 15 +++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/9p/trans_xen.c b/net/9p/trans_xen.c
> index 1fffe2bed5b0..dfdbe1ca5338 100644
> --- a/net/9p/trans_xen.c
> +++ b/net/9p/trans_xen.c
> @@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ struct xen_9pfs_front_priv {
>  	char *tag;
>  	struct p9_client *client;
>  
> -	int num_rings;
>  	struct xen_9pfs_dataring *rings;
>  };
>  
> @@ -131,7 +130,7 @@ static int p9_xen_request(struct p9_client *client, struct p9_req_t *p9_req)
>  	if (list_entry_is_head(priv, &xen_9pfs_devs, list))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	num = p9_req->tc.tag % priv->num_rings;
> +	num = p9_req->tc.tag % XEN_9PFS_NUM_RINGS;
>  	ring = &priv->rings[num];
>  
>  again:
> @@ -279,7 +278,7 @@ static void xen_9pfs_front_free(struct xen_9pfs_front_priv *priv)
>  	list_del(&priv->list);
>  	write_unlock(&xen_9pfs_lock);
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < priv->num_rings; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < XEN_9PFS_NUM_RINGS; i++) {
>  		struct xen_9pfs_dataring *ring = &priv->rings[i];
>  
>  		cancel_work_sync(&ring->work);
> @@ -408,15 +407,14 @@ static int xen_9pfs_front_init(struct xenbus_device *dev)
>  	if (p9_xen_trans.maxsize > XEN_FLEX_RING_SIZE(max_ring_order))
>  		p9_xen_trans.maxsize = XEN_FLEX_RING_SIZE(max_ring_order) / 2;
>  
> -	priv->num_rings = XEN_9PFS_NUM_RINGS;
> -	priv->rings = kcalloc(priv->num_rings, sizeof(*priv->rings),
> +	priv->rings = kcalloc(XEN_9PFS_NUM_RINGS, sizeof(*priv->rings),
>  			      GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!priv->rings) {
>  		kfree(priv);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < priv->num_rings; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < XEN_9PFS_NUM_RINGS; i++) {
>  		priv->rings[i].priv = priv;
>  		ret = xen_9pfs_front_alloc_dataring(dev, &priv->rings[i],
>  						    max_ring_order);
> @@ -434,10 +432,11 @@ static int xen_9pfs_front_init(struct xenbus_device *dev)
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto error_xenbus;
>  	ret = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "num-rings", "%u",
> -			    priv->num_rings);
> +			    XEN_9PFS_NUM_RINGS);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto error_xenbus;
> -	for (i = 0; i < priv->num_rings; i++) {
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < XEN_9PFS_NUM_RINGS; i++) {
>  		char str[16];
>  
>  		BUILD_BUG_ON(XEN_9PFS_NUM_RINGS > 9);
> 




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