Re: [PATCH V2] xfs: allocate xattr buffer on demand

["Holger Hoffstätte" <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>]

Hi Dave -

great patch but I found something that seems off in xfs_attr3_leaf_getvalue:

> @@ -2378,31 +2403,23 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_getvalue((..snip..)
> +	if (args->flags & ATTR_KERNOVAL) {
>   		args->valuelen = args->rmtvaluelen;
> +		return 0;
>   	}
> -	return 0;
> +	return xfs_attr_copy_value(args, NULL, args->rmtvaluelen);

With gcc9 I get:

   CC      fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.o
In function 'xfs_attr_copy_value',
     inlined from 'xfs_attr3_leaf_getvalue' at fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c:2425:9:
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c:421:2: warning: argument 2 null where non-null expected [-Wnonnull]
   421 |  memcpy(args->value, value, valuelen);
       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/string.h:5,
                  from ./include/linux/string.h:20,
                  from ./include/linux/uuid.h:12,
                  from ./fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h:10,
                  from ./fs/xfs/xfs.h:22,
                  from fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c:7:
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c: In function 'xfs_attr3_leaf_getvalue':
./arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h:14:14: note: in a call to function 'memcpy' declared here
    14 | extern void *memcpy(void *to, const void *from, size_t len);
       |              ^~~~~~

and sure enough, the NULL "value" arg is and passed as-is to memcpy in
xfs_attr_copy_value. Maybe you meant to sanitize the value when it's NULL?

Holger