Clang __bos vs loop unrolling (was Re: [PATCH] ALSA: asihpi: work around clang-17+ false positive fortify-string warning)

[Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 04:03:56PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> My first thought was that clang warns about it here because
> the 'u16 adapter' declaration limits the index to something
> smaller than an 'int' or 'long', but changing the type
> did not get rid of the warning.

Our current theory is that Clang has a bug with
__builtin_object_size/__builtin_dynamic_object_size when doing loop
unrolling (or other kinds of execution flow splitting). Some examples:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues?q=label%3A%22loop+unroller%22+

Which is perhaps related to __bos miscalculations:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues?q=label%3A%22%5B__bos%5D+miscalculation%22+

-Kees

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Kees Cook