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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
	Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hv_sock: Extract hvs_send_data() helper that takes only header
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 12:03:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211207120333.rmq3mmla5js7kpuj@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211207063217.2591451-1-keescook@chromium.org>

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 10:32:17PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> When building under -Warray-bounds, the compiler is especially
> conservative when faced with casts from a smaller object to a larger
> object. While this has found many real bugs, there are some cases that
> are currently false positives (like here). With this as one of the last
> few instances of the warning in the kernel before -Warray-bounds can be
> enabled globally, rearrange the functions so that there is a header-only
> version of hvs_send_data(). Silences this warning:
> 
> net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c: In function 'hvs_shutdown_lock_held.constprop':
> net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c:231:32: warning: array subscript 'struct hvs_send_buf[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'struct vmpipe_proto_header[1]' [-Warray-bounds]
>   231 |         send_buf->hdr.pkt_type = 1;
>       |         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
> net/vmw_vsock/hyperv_transport.c:465:36: note: while referencing 'hdr'
>   465 |         struct vmpipe_proto_header hdr;
>       |                                    ^~~
> 
> This change results in no executable instruction differences.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-07 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-07  6:32 [PATCH] hv_sock: Extract hvs_send_data() helper that takes only header Kees Cook
2021-12-07 12:03 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2021-12-08  6:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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