[PATCH] [RFC] blk-iocost stringop-overread warning workaround

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Sep 20 2021 - 09:15:31 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

In some randconfig builds with gcc-11, I get a warning from
the fortified string helpers:

In function 'memcpy',
inlined from 'ioc_cost_model_write' at block/blk-iocost.c:3345:2:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:20:33: error: '__builtin_memcpy' reading 48 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
20 | #define __underlying_memcpy __builtin_memcpy
| ^
include/linux/fortify-string.h:191:16: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_memcpy'
191 | return __underlying_memcpy(p, q, size);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I don't see anything wrong in the code itself, so I suspect it's
gcc doing something weird again. The only way I could find to make
this warning go away is to hide the object using the RELOC_HIDE()
macro, but this is really ugly and I hope someone has a better
idea.

Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-iocost.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/blk-iocost.c b/block/blk-iocost.c
index b3880e4ba22a..51f641840ed9 100644
--- a/block/blk-iocost.c
+++ b/block/blk-iocost.c
@@ -3173,6 +3173,7 @@ static ssize_t ioc_qos_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *input,
ioc = q_to_ioc(bdev->bd_disk->queue);
}

+ ioc = RELOC_HIDE(ioc, 0);
spin_lock_irq(&ioc->lock);
memcpy(qos, ioc->params.qos, sizeof(qos));
enable = ioc->enabled;
@@ -3340,6 +3341,7 @@ static ssize_t ioc_cost_model_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *input,
ioc = q_to_ioc(bdev->bd_disk->queue);
}

+ ioc = RELOC_HIDE(ioc, 0);
spin_lock_irq(&ioc->lock);
memcpy(u, ioc->params.i_lcoefs, sizeof(u));
user = ioc->user_cost_model;
--
2.29.2