Re: [PATCH] alpha: Silence -Warray-bounds warnings

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Wed Feb 02 2022 - 18:17:22 EST


On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 02:18:25PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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>

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@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
>