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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>,
	Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
	Hancheng Yang <hyang@freebox.fr>,
	Remi Pommarel <repk@triplefau.lt>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] wifi: ath9k: work around memset overflow warning
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:14:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmpm12ka.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240328135509.3755090-3-arnd@kernel.org>

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> gcc-9 and some other older versions produce a false-positive warning
> for zeroing two fields
>
> In file included from include/linux/string.h:369,
>                  from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:18:
> In function 'fortify_memset_chk',
>     inlined from 'ath9k_ps_wakeup' at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:140:3:
> include/linux/fortify-string.h:462:25: error: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning]
>   462 |                         __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
>       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Using a struct_group seems to reliably avoid the warning and
> not make the code much uglier. The combined memset() should even
> save a couple of cpu cycles.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-28 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20240328135509.3755090-1-arnd@kernel.org>
2024-03-28 13:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] [RESEND] wifi: carl9170: re-fix fortified-memset warning Arnd Bergmann
2024-03-28 21:51   ` Kees Cook
2024-03-29 12:56   ` Christian Lamparter
2024-04-04 10:10   ` Kalle Valo
2024-03-28 13:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] wifi: ath9k: work around memset overflow warning Arnd Bergmann
2024-03-28 21:14   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2024-03-28 21:50   ` Kees Cook

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