Re: [PATCH][next] io_uring: Fix incorrect sizeof operator for copy_from_user call

From: Pavel Begunkov
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 07:31:14 EST


On 6/15/21 11:47 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 15/06/2021 11:45, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Static analysis is warning that the sizeof being used is should be
>> of *data->tags[i] and not data->tags[i]. Although these are the same
>> size on 64 bit systems it is not a portable assumption to assume
>> this is true for all cases.
>>
>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Sizeof not portable")
>> Fixes: d878c81610e1 ("io_uring: hide rsrc tag copy into generic helpers")
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/io_uring.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
>> index d665c9419ad3..6b1a70449749 100644
>> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
>> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
>> @@ -7231,7 +7231,7 @@ static int io_rsrc_data_alloc(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, rsrc_put_fn *do_put,
>> ret = -EFAULT;
>> for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
>> if (copy_from_user(io_get_tag_slot(data, i), &utags[i],
>> - sizeof(data->tags[i])))
>> + sizeof(*data->tags[i])))
>> goto fail;
>> }
>> }
>>

Yep, thanks Colin. I think `sizeof(io_get_tag_slot(data, i))`
would be less confusing. Or

u64 *tag_slot = io_get_tag_slot(data, i);
copy_from_user(tag_slot, ..., sizeof(*tag_slot));

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Pavel Begunkov