Hey Linus, Kees. Responses below On Sun, 2023-04-23 at 13:23 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On April 23, 2023 10:36:24 AM PDT, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Kees, > > I made the mistake of upgrading my M2 Macbook Air to Fedora-38, and > > in the process I got gcc-13 which is not WERROR-clean because we only > > limited the 'array-bounds' warning to gcc-11 and gcc-12. But gcc-13 > > has all the same issues. > > > > And I want to be able to do my arm64 builds with WERROR on still... > > > > I guess it never made much sense to hope it was going to go away > > without having a confirmation, so I just changed it to be gcc-11+. > > Yeah, that's fine. GCC 13 released without having a fix for at least one (hopefully last) known array-bounds vs jump threading bug: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109071 > > > And one of them is from you. > > > > In particular, commit 4076ea2419cf ("drm/nouveau/disp: Fix > > nvif_outp_acquire_dp() argument size") cannot possibly be right, It > > changes > > > > nvif_outp_acquire_dp(struct nvif_outp *outp, u8 dpcd[16], > > > > to > > > > nvif_outp_acquire_dp(struct nvif_outp *outp, u8 dpcd[DP_RECEIVER_CAP_SIZE], > > > > and then does > > > > memcpy(args.dp.dpcd, dpcd, sizeof(args.dp.dpcd)); > > > > where that 'args.dp.dpcd' is a 16-byte array, and DP_RECEIVER_CAP_SIZE is 15. > > Yeah, it was an incomplete fix. I sent the other half here, but it fell through the cracks: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230204184307.never.825-kees@xxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks for bringing this to our attention, yeah this definitely just looks like it got missed somewhere down the line. It looks like Karol responded already so I assume the patch is in the pipeline now, but let me know if there's anything else you need. > > > > > > > > I think it's all entirely harmless from a code generation standpoint, > > because the 15-byte field will be padded out to 16 bytes in the > > structure that contains it, but it's most definitely buggy. > > Right; between this, that GCC 13 wasn't released yet, and I had no feedback from NV folks, I didn't chase down landing that fix. > > > > > So that warning does find real cases of wrong code. But when those > > real cases are hidden by hundreds of lines of unfixable false > > positives, we don't have much choice. > > Yup, totally agreed. The false positives I've looked at all seem to be similar to the outstanding jump threading bug, so I'm hoping once that gets fixed we'll finally have a good signal with that warning enabled. :) > > -Kees > > -- Cheers, Lyude Paul (she/her) Software Engineer at Red Hat
