[PATCH 1/1] x86/boot: clear some fields explicitly

From: john . hubbard
Date: Wed Jul 24 2019 - 19:15:39 EST


From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>

Recent gcc compilers (gcc 9.1) generate warnings about an
out of bounds memset, if you trying memset across several fields
of a struct. This generated a couple of warnings on x86_64 builds.

Because struct boot_params is __packed__, normal variable
variable assignment will work just as well as a memset here.
Change three u32 fields to be cleared to zero that way, and
just memset the _pad4 field.

This clears up the build warnings for me.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
index 101eb944f13c..4df87d4a043b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h
@@ -37,12 +37,11 @@ static void sanitize_boot_params(struct boot_params *boot_params)
if (boot_params->sentinel) {
/* fields in boot_params are left uninitialized, clear them */
boot_params->acpi_rsdp_addr = 0;
- memset(&boot_params->ext_ramdisk_image, 0,
- (char *)&boot_params->efi_info -
- (char *)&boot_params->ext_ramdisk_image);
- memset(&boot_params->kbd_status, 0,
- (char *)&boot_params->hdr -
- (char *)&boot_params->kbd_status);
+ boot_params->ext_ramdisk_image = 0;
+ boot_params->ext_ramdisk_size = 0;
+ boot_params->ext_cmd_line_ptr = 0;
+
+ memset(&boot_params->_pad4, 0, sizeof(boot_params->_pad4));
memset(&boot_params->_pad7[0], 0,
(char *)&boot_params->edd_mbr_sig_buffer[0] -
(char *)&boot_params->_pad7[0]);
--
2.22.0