From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fscrypt: Remove workaround for bug in gcc 7 and earlier
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:10:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260619051008.51223-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)
Since the kernel's minimum gcc version is now 8.1, the workaround for a
strange gcc bug in fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy() is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
---
fs/crypto/policy.c | 17 ++---------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/crypto/policy.c b/fs/crypto/policy.c
index 9915e39362db..f40fb5924e75 100644
--- a/fs/crypto/policy.c
+++ b/fs/crypto/policy.c
@@ -505,36 +505,23 @@ static int set_encryption_policy(struct inode *inode,
int fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy(struct file *filp, const void __user *arg)
{
union fscrypt_policy policy;
union fscrypt_policy existing_policy;
struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
- u8 version;
int size;
int ret;
if (get_user(policy.version, (const u8 __user *)arg))
return -EFAULT;
size = fscrypt_policy_size(&policy);
if (size <= 0)
return -EINVAL;
- /*
- * We should just copy the remaining 'size - 1' bytes here, but a
- * bizarre bug in gcc 7 and earlier (fixed by gcc r255731) causes gcc to
- * think that size can be 0 here (despite the check above!) *and* that
- * it's a compile-time constant. Thus it would think copy_from_user()
- * is passed compile-time constant ULONG_MAX, causing the compile-time
- * buffer overflow check to fail, breaking the build. This only occurred
- * when building an i386 kernel with -Os and branch profiling enabled.
- *
- * Work around it by just copying the first byte again...
- */
- version = policy.version;
- if (copy_from_user(&policy, arg, size))
+ if (copy_from_user((u8 *)&policy + 1, (const u8 __user *)arg + 1,
+ size - 1))
return -EFAULT;
- policy.version = version;
if (!inode_owner_or_capable(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode))
return -EACCES;
ret = mnt_want_write_file(filp);
base-commit: 83f1454877cc292b88baf13c829c16ce6937d120
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