Re: [PATCH] [v2] smb: avoid field overflow warning

From: Tom Talpey
Date: Mon Jun 19 2023 - 08:27:10 EST


On 6/19/2023 4:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

clang warns about a possible field overflow in a memcpy:

In file included from fs/smb/server/smb_common.c:7:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:583:4: error: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with 'warning' attribute: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror,-Wattribute-warning]
__write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);

It appears to interpret the "&out[baselen + 4]" as referring to a single
byte of the character array, while the equivalen "out + baselen + 4" is
seen as an offset into the array.

I don't see that kind of warning elsewhere, so just go with the simple
rework.

Fixes: e2f34481b24db ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
----
v2: fix typo in array length, and make sure it still addresses the warning
---
fs/smb/server/smb_common.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c b/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c
index a7e81067bc991..39c6c8d7d0623 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ int ksmbd_extract_shortname(struct ksmbd_conn *conn, const char *longname,
out[baselen + 3] = PERIOD;
if (dot_present)
- memcpy(&out[baselen + 4], extension, 4);
+ memcpy(out + baselen + 4, extension, 4);
else
out[baselen + 4] = '\0';
smbConvertToUTF16((__le16 *)shortname, out, PATH_MAX,

It'd be really confusing to have the other two out[baselen + foo] = bar
in the lines above and below.

Can this be fixed more clearly with a new pointer, like
char *q = &out[baselen + 4];
memcpy(q, extension, 4);
??

Tom.