From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
To: "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
"Paul Moore" <paul@paul-moore.com>,
"James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
"Tingmao Wang" <m@maowtm.org>,
"Justin Suess" <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] landlock: work around gcc-16 -Wuninitialized warning
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:21:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260619082133.3504146-1-arnd@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
gcc has a bug with -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern that produces a
warning for correct code that uses sparse bitfields:
security/landlock/fs.c: In function 'is_access_to_paths_allowed.isra':
security/landlock/fs.c:767:28: error: '_layer_masks_child1' is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]
767 | struct layer_masks _layer_masks_child1, _layer_masks_child2;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
security/landlock/fs.c:767:28: note: '_layer_masks_child1' declared here
767 | struct layer_masks _layer_masks_child1, _layer_masks_child2;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
security/landlock/fs.c: In function 'hook_unix_find':
security/landlock/fs.c:1649:28: error: 'layer_masks' is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]
1649 | struct layer_masks layer_masks;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
security/landlock/fs.c:1649:28: note: 'layer_masks' declared here
1649 | struct layer_masks layer_masks;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
To work around this, change the definition of struct layer_mask to
use an explictit padding field. This also avoids the extra attributes
for aligning the structure.
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110743
Fixes: a260c0055665 ("landlock: Add a place for flags to layer rules")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
security/landlock/access.h | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/landlock/access.h b/security/landlock/access.h
index d926078bf0a5..89ab9fbcebe4 100644
--- a/security/landlock/access.h
+++ b/security/landlock/access.h
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ struct layer_mask {
*/
access_mask_t quiet : 1;
#endif /* CONFIG_AUDIT */
-} __packed __aligned(sizeof(access_mask_t));
+ access_mask_t __pad : ((sizeof(access_mask_t) * 8) -
+ LANDLOCK_NUM_ACCESS_MAX -
+ IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AUDIT));
+};
/*
* Make sure that we don't increase the size of struct layer_mask when storing
--
2.39.5
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