Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] binder: do not initialize locals passed to copy_from_user()

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 02:25:51PM +0100, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 2:11 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 14:04 +0100, glider@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Certain copy_from_user() invocations in binder.c are known to
> > > unconditionally initialize locals before their first use, like e.g. in
> > > the following case:
> > []
> > > diff --git a/drivers/android/binder.c b/drivers/android/binder.c
> > []
> > > @@ -3788,7 +3788,7 @@ static int binder_thread_write(struct binder_proc *proc,
> > >
> > >               case BC_TRANSACTION_SG:
> > >               case BC_REPLY_SG: {
> > > -                     struct binder_transaction_data_sg tr;
> > > +                     struct binder_transaction_data_sg tr __no_initialize;
> > >
> > >                       if (copy_from_user(&tr, ptr, sizeof(tr)))
> >
> > I fail to see any value in marking tr with __no_initialize
> > when it's immediately written to by copy_from_user.
> 
> This is being done exactly because it's immediately written to by copy_to_user()
> Clang is currently unable to figure out that copy_to_user() initializes memory.
                                                    ^^
typo s/to/from/.

It feels more useful to annotate copy_from_user().  That would be useful
for Smatch as well.

regards,
dan carpenter