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[03/11] security: commoncap: fix -Wstringop-overread warning

Message ID 20210322160253.4032422-4-arnd@kernel.org
State New
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Series treewide: address gcc-11 -Wstringop-overread warnings | expand

Commit Message

Arnd Bergmann March 22, 2021, 4:02 p.m. UTC 
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

gcc-11 introdces a harmless warning for cap_inode_getsecurity:

security/commoncap.c: In function ‘cap_inode_getsecurity’:
security/commoncap.c:440:33: error: ‘memcpy’ reading 16 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
  440 |                                 memcpy(&nscap->data, &cap->data, sizeof(__le32) * 2 * VFS_CAP_U32);
      |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The problem here is that tmpbuf is initialized to NULL, so gcc assumes
it is not accessible unless it gets set by vfs_getxattr_alloc().  This is
a legitimate warning as far as I can tell, but the code is correct since
it correctly handles the error when that function fails.

Add a separate NULL check to tell gcc about it as well.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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 security/commoncap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 28f4d25480df..9a36ed6dd737 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@  int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 				      &tmpbuf, size, GFP_NOFS);
 	dput(dentry);
 
-	if (ret < 0)
+	if (ret < 0 || !tmpbuf)
 		return ret;
 
 	fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;