Re: [PATCH] ipvs: fix UB due to uninitialized stack access in ip_vs_protocol_init()

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	Hello,

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Jinghao Jia wrote:

> On 11/18/24 6:41 AM, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Nov 2024, Jinghao Jia wrote:
> > 
> >> Under certain kernel configurations when building with Clang/LLVM, the
> >> compiler does not generate a return or jump as the terminator
> >> instruction for ip_vs_protocol_init(), triggering the following objtool
> >> warning during build time:
> >>
> >>   vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: ip_vs_protocol_init() falls through to next function __initstub__kmod_ip_vs_rr__935_123_ip_vs_rr_init6()
> >>
...
> >> This gives later passes (SCCP, in particular) to more DCE opportunities
> 
> One small request: if you could help us remove the extra "to" in the above
> sentence when committing this patch, it would be great.
> 
...
> > 	Looks good to me, thanks! I assume it is for
> > net-next/nf-next, right?
> 
> I am actually not familiar with the netfilter trees. IMHO this should also be
> back-ported to the stable kernels -- I wonder if net-next/nf-next is a good
> tree for this?

	Then may be it is better to send [PATCHv2 net] after fixing
the above "to" and selecting proper commit for a Fixes line (probably
the initial commit 1da177e4c3f4 ?).

> >> -	char protocols[64];
> >> +	char protocols[64] = { 0 };
> >>  #define REGISTER_PROTOCOL(p)			\
> >>  	do {					\
> >>  		register_ip_vs_protocol(p);	\
> >> @@ -348,8 +348,6 @@ int __init ip_vs_protocol_init(void)
> >>  		strcat(protocols, (p)->name);	\
> >>  	} while (0)
> >>  
> >> -	protocols[0] = '\0';
> >> -	protocols[2] = '\0';
> >>  #ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_TCP
> >>  	REGISTER_PROTOCOL(&ip_vs_protocol_tcp);
> >>  #endif

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>





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