From: Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>
To: <maddy@linux.ibm.com>, <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, <npiggin@gmail.com>,
<chleroy@kernel.org>, <kees@kernel.org>, <andy@kernel.org>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>, <lilinjie8@huawei.com>,
<liaohua4@huawei.com>, <xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/text-patching: Fix possible stringop-overread compilation error
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 18:05:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260205100517.292858-2-xieyuanbin1@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260205100517.292858-1-xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>
For strnlen(), if the compiler detects that the maxlen argument exceeds
the valid memory size of the input string object, a compilation error may
occur.
For lastest linux-next source, changing ppc_kallsyms_lookup_name() to
__always_inline, using default ppc64_defconfig, and setting
CONFIG_EXPERT=y, CONFIG_PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2=n,
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y. Then, when using gcc-15 for compilation,
the following error will be triggered:
```log
CC arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.o
In file included from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h:24,
from ./include/linux/kprobes.h:31,
from arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:8:
In function ‘ppc_kallsyms_lookup_name’,
inlined from ‘arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe’ at arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:209:21:
./arch/powerpc/include/asm/text-patching.h:232:13: error: ‘strnlen’ specified bound 512 exceeds source size 19 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
232 | if (strnlen(name, KSYM_NAME_LEN) >= KSYM_NAME_LEN)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function ‘ppc_kallsyms_lookup_name’,
inlined from ‘arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe’ at arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c:210:22:
./arch/powerpc/include/asm/text-patching.h:232:13: error: ‘strnlen’ specified bound 512 exceeds source size 13 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
232 | if (strnlen(name, KSYM_NAME_LEN) >= KSYM_NAME_LEN)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
```
Refer to the implementation of fortify's strnlen(). If the string length
is a compile-time constant, do not call the strnlen() function.
Signed-off-by: Xie Yuanbin <xieyuanbin1@huawei.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/text-patching.h | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/text-patching.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/text-patching.h
index e7f14720f630..ce1b2131980a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/text-patching.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/text-patching.h
@@ -228,8 +228,13 @@ static inline unsigned long ppc_kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name)
/* check for dot variant */
char dot_name[1 + KSYM_NAME_LEN];
bool dot_appended = false;
+ size_t n_len = __compiletime_strlen(name);
+ const size_t n_size = __member_size(name);
- if (strnlen(name, KSYM_NAME_LEN) >= KSYM_NAME_LEN)
+ if (n_len == SIZE_MAX || KSYM_NAME_LEN < n_size)
+ n_len = strnlen(name, KSYM_NAME_LEN);
+
+ if (n_len >= KSYM_NAME_LEN)
return 0;
if (name[0] != '.') {
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-05 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-05 10:05 [PATCH 1/2] string: move __compiletime_strlen() to string.h Xie Yuanbin
2026-02-05 10:05 ` Xie Yuanbin [this message]
2026-02-05 16:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/text-patching: Fix possible stringop-overread compilation error Andy Shevchenko
2026-02-06 11:14 ` Xie Yuanbin
2026-02-06 18:26 ` Kees Cook
2026-02-06 19:53 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-02-09 13:25 ` Xie Yuanbin
2026-02-09 13:41 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-02-09 14:11 ` Xie Yuanbin
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