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* [PATCH] landlock: work around gcc-16 -Wuninitialized warning
@ 2026-06-19  8:21 Arnd Bergmann
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From: Arnd Bergmann @ 2026-06-19  8:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mickaël Salaün, Paul Moore, James Morris,
	Serge E. Hallyn, Tingmao Wang, Justin Suess
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Günther Noack, linux-security-module,
	linux-kernel

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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