Re: [PATCH v2 60/63] net/af_iucv: Use struct_group() to zero struct iucv_sock region
From: Karsten Graul
Date: Thu Sep 09 2021 - 02:15:24 EST
On 18/08/2021 08:05, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for FORTIFY_SOURCE performing compile-time and run-time
> field bounds checking for memset(), avoid intentionally writing across
> neighboring fields.
>
> Add struct_group() to mark the region of struct iucv_sock that gets
> initialized to zero. Avoid the future warning:
>
> In function 'fortify_memset_chk',
> inlined from 'iucv_sock_alloc' at net/iucv/af_iucv.c:476:2:
> ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:199:4: warning: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
> 199 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Cc: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Karsten Graul <kgraul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/net/iucv/af_iucv.h | 10 ++++++----
> net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
No objections.
Acked-by: Karsten Graul <kgraul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thank you.