This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_osf: avoid passing pointer to local var to the 5.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: netfilter-nf_osf-avoid-passing-pointer-to-local-var.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c165d57b552aaca607fa5daf3fb524a6efe3c5a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:00:41 +0200 Subject: netfilter: nf_osf: avoid passing pointer to local var From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> commit c165d57b552aaca607fa5daf3fb524a6efe3c5a3 upstream. gcc-10 points out that a code path exists where a pointer to a stack variable may be passed back to the caller: net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c: In function 'nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init': cc1: warning: function may return address of local variable [-Wreturn-local-addr] net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c:171:16: note: declared here 171 | struct tcphdr _tcph; | ^~~~~ I am not sure whether this can happen in practice, but moving the variable declaration into the callers avoids the problem. Fixes: 31a9c29210e2 ("netfilter: nf_osf: add struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c @@ -165,12 +165,12 @@ static bool nf_osf_match_one(const struc static const struct tcphdr *nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx *ctx, const struct sk_buff *skb, const struct iphdr *ip, - unsigned char *opts) + unsigned char *opts, + struct tcphdr *_tcph) { const struct tcphdr *tcp; - struct tcphdr _tcph; - tcp = skb_header_pointer(skb, ip_hdrlen(skb), sizeof(struct tcphdr), &_tcph); + tcp = skb_header_pointer(skb, ip_hdrlen(skb), sizeof(struct tcphdr), _tcph); if (!tcp) return NULL; @@ -205,10 +205,11 @@ nf_osf_match(const struct sk_buff *skb, int fmatch = FMATCH_WRONG; struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx ctx; const struct tcphdr *tcp; + struct tcphdr _tcph; memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx)); - tcp = nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(&ctx, skb, ip, opts); + tcp = nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(&ctx, skb, ip, opts, &_tcph); if (!tcp) return false; @@ -265,10 +266,11 @@ bool nf_osf_find(const struct sk_buff *s const struct nf_osf_finger *kf; struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx ctx; const struct tcphdr *tcp; + struct tcphdr _tcph; memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx)); - tcp = nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(&ctx, skb, ip, opts); + tcp = nf_osf_hdr_ctx_init(&ctx, skb, ip, opts, &_tcph); if (!tcp) return false; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are queue-5.6/netfilter-nf_osf-avoid-passing-pointer-to-local-var.patch queue-5.6/amba-initialize-dma_parms-for-amba-devices.patch queue-5.6/driver-core-platform-initialize-dma_parms-for-platform-devices.patch