[PATCH v3] seq_file: fix clang warning for NULL pointer arithmetic

Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-27T22:19:31Z

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Clang points out that adding something to NULL is notallowed
in standard C:

fs/kernfs/file.c:127:15: warning: performing pointer arithmetic on a
null pointer has undefined behavior [-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]
return NULL + !*ppos;
~~~~ ^
fs/seq_file.c:529:14: warning: performing pointer arithmetic on a
null pointer has undefined behavior [-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]
return NULL + (*pos == 0);

Rephrase the code to be extra explicit about the valid, giving
them named SEQ_OPEN_EOF and SEQ_OPEN_SINGLE definitions.
The instance in kernfs was copied from single_start, so fix both
at once.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: c2b19daf6760 ("sysfs, kernfs: prepare read path for kernfs")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
v2: add the named macros after Christoph Hellwig pointed out
that my original logic was too ugly.
Suggestions for better names welcome

v3: don't overload the NULL return, avoid ?: operator
---
fs/kernfs/file.c | 9 ++++++---
fs/seq_file.c | 5 ++++-
include/linux/seq_file.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c
index f277d023ebcd..5a5adb03c6df 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c
@@ -121,10 +121,13 @@ static void *kernfs_seq_start(struct seq_file *sf, loff_t *ppos)
return next;
} else {
/*
- * The same behavior and code as single_open(). Returns
- * !NULL if pos is at the beginning; otherwise, NULL.
+ * The same behavior and code as single_open(). Continues
+ * if pos is at the beginning; otherwise, NULL.
*/
- return NULL + !*ppos;
+ if (*ppos)
+ return NULL;
+
+ return SEQ_OPEN_SINGLE;
}
}

diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index 31219c1db17d..6b467d769501 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -526,7 +526,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_dentry);

static void *single_start(struct seq_file *p, loff_t *pos)
{
- return NULL + (*pos == 0);
+ if (*pos)
+ return NULL;
+
+ return SEQ_OPEN_SINGLE;
}

static void *single_next(struct seq_file *p, void *v, loff_t *pos)
diff --git a/include/linux/seq_file.h b/include/linux/seq_file.h
index 813614d4b71f..eb344448d4da 100644
--- a/include/linux/seq_file.h
+++ b/include/linux/seq_file.h
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ struct seq_operations {

#define SEQ_SKIP 1

+#define SEQ_OPEN_SINGLE (void *)1
+
/**
* seq_has_overflowed - check if the buffer has overflowed
* @m: the seq_file handle
--
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