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>
---
Changes in v3:
- Update changelog text to point out that this is a workaround.
Changes in v2:
- Use pointer-to-pointer instead of pointer-to-array.
- Update changelog text.
- Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/ZN02iLcZYgxHFrEN@work/
v1:
- Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/ZIpm3pcs3iCP9UaR@work/
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index ccbbba06da5b..68e2d9812e3f 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ static void css_set_move_task(struct task_struct *task,
#define CSS_SET_HASH_BITS 7
static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(css_set_table, CSS_SET_HASH_BITS);
-static unsigned long css_set_hash(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css[])
+static unsigned long css_set_hash(struct cgroup_subsys_state **css)
{
unsigned long key = 0UL;
struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ static bool compare_css_sets(struct css_set *cset,
*/
static struct css_set *find_existing_css_set(struct css_set *old_cset,
struct cgroup *cgrp,
- struct cgroup_subsys_state *template[])
+ struct cgroup_subsys_state **template)
{
struct cgroup_root *root = cgrp->root;
struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
--
2.34.1
