Re: [PATCH] mm/uaccess: Use 'unsigned long' to placate UBSAN warnings, again

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/6/21 3:37 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 04:13:17PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:04:54PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>>> GCC 7 has a known bug where UBSAN ignores '-fwrapv' and generates false
>>> signed-overflow-UB warnings.  The type mismatch between 'i' and
>>> 'nr_segs' in copy_compat_iovec_from_user() is causing such a warning,
>>> which also happens to violate uaccess rules:
>>>
>>>   lib/iov_iter.o: warning: objtool: iovec_from_user()+0x22d: call to __ubsan_handle_add_overflow() with UACCESS enabled
>>>
>>> Fix it by making the variable types match.
>>>
>>> This is similar to a previous commit:
>>>
>>>   29da93fea3ea ("mm/uaccess: Use 'unsigned long' to placate UBSAN warnings on older GCC versions")
>>
>> Maybe it's time we make UBSAN builds depend on GCC-8+ ?
> 
> I would be totally fine with that. The only thing I can think of that
> might care is syzbot. Dmitry, does syzbot use anything older than gcc 8?

I use UBSAN successfully with GCC 7.5.0.
However, I can revert whatever future patch someone adds for this...

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~Randy