This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: plfxlc: fix clang-specific fortify warning to the 6.6-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: wifi-plfxlc-fix-clang-specific-fortify-warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e19372ea0c3de254edd3d6f711c925e30bf8ae8d Author: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 29 12:45:31 2023 +0300 wifi: plfxlc: fix clang-specific fortify warning [ Upstream commit a763e92c78615ea838f5b9a841398b1d4adb968e ] When compiling with clang 16.0.6 and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y, I've noticed the following (somewhat confusing due to absence of an actual source code location): In file included from drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c:6: In file included from ./include/linux/netdevice.h:24: In file included from ./include/linux/timer.h:6: In file included from ./include/linux/ktime.h:24: In file included from ./include/linux/time.h:60: In file included from ./include/linux/time32.h:13: In file included from ./include/linux/timex.h:67: In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h:5: In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:23: In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:11: In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:5: In file included from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12: In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:11: In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:254: ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:592:4: warning: call to '__read_overflow2_field' declared with 'warning' attribute: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning] __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size); The compiler actually complains on 'plfxlc_get_et_strings()' where fortification logic inteprets call to 'memcpy()' as an attempt to copy the whole 'et_strings' array from its first member and so issues an overread warning. This warning may be silenced by passing an address of the whole array and not the first member to 'memcpy()'. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230829094541.234751-1-dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c index 94ee831b5de35..506d2f31efb5a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/plfxlc/mac.c @@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static void plfxlc_get_et_strings(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 sset, u8 *data) { if (sset == ETH_SS_STATS) - memcpy(data, *et_strings, sizeof(et_strings)); + memcpy(data, et_strings, sizeof(et_strings)); } static void plfxlc_get_et_stats(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,