Re: [PATCH v3][next] cgroup: Avoid -Wstringop-overflow warnings

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:19:13AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Change the notation from pointer-to-array to pointer-to-pointer.
> With this, we avoid the compiler complaining about trying
> to access a region of size zero as an argument during function
> calls.
> 
> This is a workaround to prevent the compiler complaining about
> accessing an array of size zero when evaluating the arguments
> of a couple of function calls. See below:
> 
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c: In function 'find_css_set':
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1206:16: warning: 'find_existing_css_set' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
>  1206 |         cset = find_existing_css_set(old_cset, cgrp, template);
>       |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1206:16: note: referencing argument 3 of type 'struct cgroup_subsys_state *[0]'
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1071:24: note: in a call to function 'find_existing_css_set'
>  1071 | static struct css_set *find_existing_css_set(struct css_set *old_cset,
>       |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> With the change to pointer-to-pointer, the functions are not prevented
> from being executed, and they will do what they have to do when
> CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT == 0.
> 
> Address the following -Wstringop-overflow warnings seen when
> built with ARM architecture and aspeed_g4_defconfig configuration
> (notice that under this configuration CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT == 0):
> 
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1208:16: warning: 'find_existing_css_set' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1258:15: warning: 'css_set_hash' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:6089:18: warning: 'css_set_hash' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:6153:18: warning: 'css_set_hash' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
> 
> This results in no differences in binary output.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/316
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kees Cook