6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b8a555dc31e5aa18d976de0bc228006e398a2e7d upstream.
When building with clang and CONFIG_RANDSTRUCT_FULL=y, there is an error
due to a cast in eventfs_create_events_dir():
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c:734:10: error: casting from randomized structure pointer type 'struct dentry *' to 'struct eventfs_inode *'
734 | return (struct eventfs_inode *)dentry;
| ^
1 error generated.
Use the ERR_CAST() function to resolve the error, as it was designed for
this exact situation (casting an error pointer to another type).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231018-ftrace-fix-clang-randstruct-v1-1-338cb214abfb@xxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1947
Fixes: 5790b1fb3d67 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_eve
return NULL;
if (IS_ERR(dentry))
- return (struct eventfs_inode *)dentry;
+ return ERR_CAST(dentry);
ei = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ei)
