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From: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] ASoC: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:26:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305563192.3156.7.camel@odin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305244212-19183-8-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:50 -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following
> warning:
> 
> In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:573,
>                  from include/linux/poll.h:14,
>                  from include/sound/pcm.h:29,
>                  from include/sound/ac97_codec.h:31,
>                  from sound/soc/soc-core.c:34:
> In function 'copy_from_user',
>     inlined from 'codec_reg_write_file' at
>     sound/soc/soc-core.c:252:
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:65:
> warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with
> attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably
> correct
> 
> presumably due to buf_size being signed causing GCC to fail to
> see that buf_size can't become negative.
> 
> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>

Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-16 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-12 23:50 [PATCH 0/9] strict user copy checks on x86_64 Stephen Boyd
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 1/9] iwlegacy: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning Stephen Boyd
2011-05-13  0:01   ` wwguy
2011-05-13  9:08   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 2/9] iwlwifi: " Stephen Boyd
2011-05-13  0:02   ` wwguy
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 3/9] [SCSI] lpfc: " Stephen Boyd
2011-05-24 13:32   ` James Smart
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 4/9] debugfs: " Stephen Boyd
2011-05-13 23:14   ` Greg KH
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 5/9] kprobes: " Stephen Boyd
2011-05-13  0:29   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 6/9] Bluetooth: " Stephen Boyd
2011-05-13 21:06   ` Gustavo F. Padovan
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 7/9] ASoC: " Stephen Boyd
2011-05-16 16:26   ` Liam Girdwood [this message]
2011-05-16 20:22   ` Mark Brown
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 8/9] x86: Implement strict user copy checks for x86_64 Stephen Boyd
2011-05-13 10:15   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-12 23:50 ` [PATCH 9/9] Consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS Stephen Boyd
2011-05-13  0:55   ` Chris Metcalf
2011-05-13  7:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 16:55   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-24 21:29 ` [PATCH 0/9] strict user copy checks on x86_64 Stephen Boyd
2011-05-24 23:33   ` H. Peter Anvin

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