Re: mainline build failure due to df8fc4e934c1 ("kbuild: Enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3")

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>]

Hi,

Thanks for the report. See my comments below.

On 6/29/23 07:53, Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink) wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The latest mainline kernel branch fails to build with clang (version 16.0.1), and the errors are like:
> 
> 
> drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c:1170:17: error: array index 1 is past the end of the array (that has type 'u8[1]' (aka 'unsigned char[1]'), cast to '__le32 *' (aka 'unsigned int *')) [-Werror,-Warray-bounds]
>                                  (((__le32 *)aifcmd->data)[1] == cpu_to_le32(3));
>                                              ^             ~
> drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h:2621:2: note: array 'data' declared here
>          u8 data[1];             /* Undefined length (from kernel viewpoint) */
>          ^
> drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c:1290:20: error: array index 3 is past the end of the array (that has type 'u8[1]' (aka 'unsigned char[1]'), cast to '__le32 *' (aka 'unsigned int *')) [-Werror,-Warray-bounds]
>                                    ((((__le32 *)aifcmd->data)[3]

These are addressed by this patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/65907ee4083de62fbaadc5c2e6512e3828912d1b.1687974498.git.gustavoars@kernel.org/

in this series (for which I'll send v2 shortly):
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/62386518-4123-db1f-4656-6b4ea509f5b1@embeddedor.com/T/


> drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c:1600:34: error: array index 16 is past the end of the array (that has type '__u8[0]' (aka 'unsigned char[0]')) [-Werror,-Warray-bounds]
>                                  memcpy(&key->tx_mic_key[0], &enc->key[16], 8);
>                                                               ^        ~~
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:694:35: note: expanded from macro 'memcpy'
>                  __struct_size(p), __struct_size(q),                     \
>                                                  ^
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:96:56: note: expanded from macro '__struct_size'
> #define __struct_size(p)        __builtin_dynamic_object_size(p, 0)
>                                                                ^
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:638:27: note: expanded from macro '__fortify_memcpy_chk'
>          const size_t __q_size = (q_size);                               \
>                                   ^~~~~~
> ./include/uapi/linux/wireless.h:838:2: note: array 'key' declared here
>          __u8            key[0];
>          ^

and these are addressed by this patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next/kspp&id=40ca06d71d60677a8424798610c97a46e4140a21

in this pull-request:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/ZJxZJDUDs1ry84Rc@work/

Thanks
--
Gustavo

> 
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> 
> 
> git bisect pointed to df8fc4e934c1 ("kbuild: Enable -fstrict-flex-arrays=3").
> 
> Reverting the commit has fixed the build failure.
> 
> I will be happy to test any patch or provide any extra log if needed.
> 
> #regzbot introduced: df8fc4e934c12b906d08050d7779f292b9c5c6b5
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