[PATCH] mm/uaccess: Use 'unsigned long' to placate UBSAN warnings, again

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Dec 23 2020 - 00:07:02 EST


GCC 7 has a known bug where UBSAN ignores '-fwrapv' and generates false
signed-overflow-UB warnings. The type mismatch between 'i' and
'nr_segs' in copy_compat_iovec_from_user() is causing such a warning,
which also happens to violate uaccess rules:

lib/iov_iter.o: warning: objtool: iovec_from_user()+0x22d: call to __ubsan_handle_add_overflow() with UACCESS enabled

Fix it by making the variable types match.

This is similar to a previous commit:

29da93fea3ea ("mm/uaccess: Use 'unsigned long' to placate UBSAN warnings on older GCC versions")

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/iov_iter.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index 1635111c5bd2..2e6a42f5d1df 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -1656,7 +1656,8 @@ static int copy_compat_iovec_from_user(struct iovec *iov,
{
const struct compat_iovec __user *uiov =
(const struct compat_iovec __user *)uvec;
- int ret = -EFAULT, i;
+ int ret = -EFAULT;
+ unsigned long i;

if (!user_access_begin(uvec, nr_segs * sizeof(*uvec)))
return -EFAULT;
--
2.29.2