From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> gcc-11 introdces a harmless warning for cap_inode_getsecurity: security/commoncap.c: In function ‘cap_inode_getsecurity’: security/commoncap.c:440:33: error: ‘memcpy’ reading 16 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread] 440 | memcpy(&nscap->data, &cap->data, sizeof(__le32) * 2 * VFS_CAP_U32); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The problem here is that tmpbuf is initialized to NULL, so gcc assumes it is not accessible unless it gets set by vfs_getxattr_alloc(). This is a legitimate warning as far as I can tell, but the code is correct since it correctly handles the error when that function fails. Add a separate NULL check to tell gcc about it as well. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- security/commoncap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index 28f4d25480df..9a36ed6dd737 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, &tmpbuf, size, GFP_NOFS); dput(dentry); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0 || !tmpbuf) return ret; fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns; -- 2.29.2 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel