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Clang can do some aggressive inlining, which provides it with greater
visibility into the sizes of various objects that are passed into
helpers. Specifically, compare_netdev_and_ip() can see through the type
given to the "sa" argument, which means it can generate code for "struct
sockaddr_in" that would have been passed to ipv6_addr_cmp() (that expects
to operate on the larger "struct sockaddr_in6"), which would result in a
compile-time buffer overflow condition detected by memcmp(). Logically,
this state isn't reachable due to the sa_family assignment two callers
above and the check in compare_netdev_and_ip(). Instead, provide a
compile-time check on sizes so the size-mismatched code will be elided
when inlining. Avoids the following warning from Clang:
../include/linux/fortify-string.h:652:4: error: call to '__read_overflow' declared with 'error' attribute: detected read beyond size of object (1st parameter)
__read_overflow();
^
note: In function 'cma_netevent_callback'
note: which inlined function 'node_from_ndev_ip'
1 error generated.
When the underlying object size is not known (e.g. with GCC and older
Clang), the result of __builtin_object_size() is SIZE_MAX, which will also
compile away, leaving the code as it was originally.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208232549.never.139-kees@kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1687
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> # build
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.