On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There are some additional declarations that got missed in the original patch,
>> and some annotated functions that use the pointer is a correct but nonobvious
>> way:
>>
>> mm/kasan/kasan.c: In function 'memmove':
>> mm/kasan/kasan.c:346:7: error: 'memmove' captures its 2 ('src') parameter, please remove it from the nocapture attribute. [-Werror]
>> void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t len)
>> ^~~~~~~
>> mm/kasan/kasan.c: In function 'memcpy':
>> mm/kasan/kasan.c:355:7: error: 'memcpy' captures its 2 ('src') parameter, please remove it from the nocapture attribute. [-Werror]
>> void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t len)
>> ^~~~~~
>> drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c: In function 'acpi_debug_print':
>> drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c:158:1: error: 'acpi_debug_print' captures its 3 ('function_name') parameter, please remove it from the nocapture attribute. [-Werror]
>>
>> lib/string.c:893:7: error: 'memchr_inv' captures its 1 ('start') parameter, please remove it from the nocapture attribute. [-Werror]
>> void *memchr_inv(const void *start, int c, size_t bytes)
>> lib/string.c: In function 'strnstr':
>> lib/string.c:832:7: error: 'strnstr' captures its 1 ('s1') parameter, please remove it from the nocapture attribute. [-Werror]
>> char *strnstr(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len)
>> ^~~~~~~
>> lib/string.c:832:7: error: 'strnstr' captures its 2 ('s2') parameter, please remove it from the nocapture attribute. [-Werror]
>>
>> I'm not sure if these are all appropriate fixes, please have a careful look
>>
>> Fixes: c2bc07665495 ("initify: Mark functions with the __nocapture attribute")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c | 2 +-
>> include/acpi/acpixf.h | 2 +-
>> include/asm-generic/asm-prototypes.h | 8 ++++----
>> include/linux/string.h | 2 +-
>> lib/string.c | 2 +-
>> mm/kasan/kasan.c | 4 ++--
>> 6 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c
>> index 044df9b0356e..de3c9cb305a2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c
>> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static const char *acpi_ut_trim_function_name(const char *function_name)
>> *
>> ******************************************************************************/
>>
>> -void ACPI_INTERNAL_VAR_XFACE
>> +void __unverified_nocapture(3) ACPI_INTERNAL_VAR_XFACE
>
> Generally speaking, there is a problem with adding annotations like
> this to ACPICA code.
>
> We get that code from an external project (upstream ACPICA) and the
> more Linux-specific stuff is there in it, the more difficult to
> maintain it becomes.
We need to find a way to solve this. Why can't take take our changes?
Or better yet, why can't we keep a delta from them if they won't take
them?
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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