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>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Günther Noack" <gnoack@google.com>,
"Tingmao Wang" <m@maowtm.org>, "Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] landlock: avoid memcpy static check warning
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 22:30:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260519203012.1340274-1-arnd@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The fortified string helpers trigger a -Wrestrict warning when
gcc deducts that the size of the landlock_layer array can
overflow as a result of the flex_array_size() calculation:
In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/string.h:6,
from security/landlock/ruleset.c:16:
security/landlock/ruleset.c: In function 'create_rule':
arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:150:25: error: '__builtin_memcpy' accessing 4294967295 bytes at offsets 0 and 0 overlaps 6442450943 bytes at offset -2147483648 [-Werror=restrict]
150 | #define memcpy(t, f, n) __builtin_memcpy(t, f, n)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
security/landlock/ruleset.c:139:9: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy'
139 | memcpy(new_rule->layers, layers,
| ^~~~~~
'create_rule': event 1
include/linux/compiler.h:69:46:
68 | (cond) ? \
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
69 | (__if_trace.miss_hit[1]++,1) : \
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~
| |
| (1) when the condition is evaluated to true
70 | (__if_trace.miss_hit[0]++,0); \
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/compiler.h:57:69: note: in expansion of macro '__trace_if_value'
57 | #define __trace_if_var(cond) (__builtin_constant_p(cond) ? (cond) : __trace_if_value(cond))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/compiler.h:55:28: note: in expansion of macro '__trace_if_var'
55 | #define if(cond, ...) if ( __trace_if_var( !!(cond , ## __VA_ARGS__) ) )
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/overflow.h:334:9: note: in expansion of macro 'if'
334 | if (check_mul_overflow(factor1, factor2, &bytes))
| ^~
'create_rule': event 2
Out of these individually helpful checks (-Wrestrict, fortified
string helpers, flex_array_size), one of them has to go to avoid
the warning.
Seeing that the length of the array is already checked earlier
in this function, through both an explicit LANDLOCK_MAX_NUM_LAYERS
comparison and the implicit kzalloc_flex() having succeeded,
replace the flex_array_size() call with a direct multiplication.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
security/landlock/ruleset.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/landlock/ruleset.c b/security/landlock/ruleset.c
index 181df7736bb9..26e0b7193a7b 100644
--- a/security/landlock/ruleset.c
+++ b/security/landlock/ruleset.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ create_rule(const struct landlock_id id,
new_rule->num_layers = new_num_layers;
/* Copies the original layer stack. */
memcpy(new_rule->layers, layers,
- flex_array_size(new_rule, layers, num_layers));
+ sizeof(struct landlock_layer) * num_layers);
if (new_layer)
/* Adds a copy of @new_layer on the layer stack. */
new_rule->layers[new_rule->num_layers - 1] = *new_layer;
--
2.39.5
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-19 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-19 20:30 Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2026-05-20 9:10 ` [PATCH] landlock: avoid memcpy static check warning Mickaël Salaün
2026-05-20 11:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
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