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 6.5-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-6.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4e578e9c9aea3f6a0f7983cb4bcb573f0ecafdbe
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,
