Re: [PATCH 3/9] [SCSI] lpfc: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning

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Acked-by: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

-- james


On 5/12/2011 7:50 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following
warning:

In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:573,
                  from include/linux/uaccess.h:5,
                  from include/linux/highmem.h:7,
                  from include/linux/pagemap.h:10,
                  from include/linux/blkdev.h:12,
                  from drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c:21:
In function 'copy_from_user':
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:65:
warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with
attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably
correct

presumably due to buf_size being signed causing GCC to fail to
see that buf_size can't become negative.

Cc: James Smart<james.smart@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd<sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c |    3 ++-
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c
index 3d96774..0af53a6 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c
@@ -1305,7 +1305,8 @@ static int lpfc_idiag_cmd_get(const char __user *buf, size_t nbytes,
  {
  	char mybuf[64];
  	char *pbuf, *step_str;
-	int bsize, i;
+	int i;
+	size_t bsize;

  	/* Protect copy from user */
  	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, buf, nbytes))
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