[PATCH] alpha: Silence -Warray-bounds warnings

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Feb 02 2022 - 17:18:30 EST


GCC 11 (incorrectly[1]) assumes that literal values cast to (void *)
should be treated like a NULL pointer with an offset, and raises
diagnostics when doing bounds checking:

In function '__memset',
inlined from '__bad_pagetable' at arch/alpha/mm/init.c:79:2:
./arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h:37:32: error: '__builtin_memset' offset [0, 8191] is out of the bounds [0, 0] [-Werror=array-bounds]
37 | return __builtin_memset(s, c, n);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function '__memset',
inlined from '__bad_page' at arch/alpha/mm/init.c:86:2:
./arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h:37:32: error: '__builtin_memset' offset [0, 8191] is out of the bounds [0, 0] [-Werror=array-bounds]
37 | return __builtin_memset(s, c, n);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function '__memset',
inlined from 'paging_init' at arch/alpha/mm/init.c:256:2:
./arch/alpha/include/asm/string.h:37:32: error: '__builtin_memset' offset [0, 8191] is out of the bounds [0, 0] [-Werror=array-bounds]
37 | return __builtin_memset(s, c, n);

This has been solved in other places[2] already by using the recently
added absolute_pointer() macro. Do the same here.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99578
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912160149.2227137-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/mm/init.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/mm/init.c b/arch/alpha/mm/init.c
index f6114d03357c..7511723b7669 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/mm/init.c
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
pmd_t *
__bad_pagetable(void)
{
- memset((void *) EMPTY_PGT, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ memset(absolute_pointer(EMPTY_PGT), 0, PAGE_SIZE);
return (pmd_t *) EMPTY_PGT;
}

pte_t
__bad_page(void)
{
- memset((void *) EMPTY_PGE, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ memset(absolute_pointer(EMPTY_PGE), 0, PAGE_SIZE);
return pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(virt_to_page(EMPTY_PGE), PAGE_SHARED));
}

@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
free_area_init(max_zone_pfn);

/* Initialize the kernel's ZERO_PGE. */
- memset((void *)ZERO_PGE, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ memset(absolute_pointer(ZERO_PGE), 0, PAGE_SIZE);
}

#if defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC) || defined(CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM)
--
2.30.2