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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fortify: Do not cast to "unsigned char"
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:16:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221025231627.never.000-kees@kernel.org> (raw)

Do not cast to "unsigned char", as this needlessly creates type problems
when attempting builds without -Wno-pointer-sign[1]. The intent of the
cast is to drop possible "const" types.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgz3Uba8w7kdXhsqR1qvfemYL+OFQdefJnkeqXG8qZ_pA@mail.gmail.com/

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 3009f891bb9f ("fortify: Allow strlen() and strnlen() to pass compile-time known lengths")
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 include/linux/fortify-string.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fortify-string.h b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
index f3dd5d1a6a25..09a032f6ce6b 100644
--- a/include/linux/fortify-string.h
+++ b/include/linux/fortify-string.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ void __write_overflow_field(size_t avail, size_t wanted) __compiletime_warning("
 
 #define __compiletime_strlen(p)					\
 ({								\
-	unsigned char *__p = (unsigned char *)(p);		\
+	char *__p = (char *)(p);				\
 	size_t __ret = SIZE_MAX;				\
 	size_t __p_size = __member_size(p);			\
 	if (__p_size != SIZE_MAX &&				\
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-25 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-25 23:16 Kees Cook [this message]
2022-10-26 18:26 ` [PATCH] fortify: Do not cast to "unsigned char" Nick Desaulniers
2022-10-26 18:47   ` Linus Torvalds

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