Re: [PATCH] libperf: xyarray: Add bounds checks to xyarray__entry()

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Apr 15 2021 - 16:03:05 EST


On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 2:51 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Em Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 04:48:34PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 04:46:46PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > > Em Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 03:53:36PM -0500, Rob Herring escreveu:
> > > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 3:25 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > +static inline void *xyarray__entry(struct xyarray *xy, int x, int y)
> > > > > > +{
> > > > > > + if (x >= xy->max_x || y >= xy->max_y)
> > > > > > + return NULL;
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe better to check negatives as well.
> > > >
> > > > max_x and max_y are size_t and unsigned, so x and y will be promoted
> > > > to unsigned and the check will still work.
> > >
> > > Fair enough, applied.
> >
> > So...:
> >
> > CC /tmp/build/perf/builtin-script.o
> > In file included from xyarray.c:2:
> > /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/xyarray.h: In function ‘xyarray__entry’:
> > /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/xyarray.h:28:8: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘int’ and ‘size_t’ {aka ‘long unsigned int’} [-Werror=sign-compare]
> > 28 | if (x >= xy->max_x || y >= xy->max_y)
> > | ^~
> > /home/acme/git/perf/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/xyarray.h:28:26: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘int’ and ‘size_t’ {aka ‘long unsigned int’} [-Werror=sign-compare]
> > 28 | if (x >= xy->max_x || y >= xy->max_y)
> > | ^~
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >
> >
> > Fedora 33's gcc complains, so I'll cast it to size_t.

I guess gcc 10.2 on ubuntu doesn't yet. I was somewhat expecting to
see something and figured it was fine with -Wall...

Rob