Re: [fortify] 54d9469bc5: WARNING:at_net/wireless/wext-core.c:#wireless_send_event

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 11:46:21AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> commit: 54d9469bc515dc5fcbc20eecbe19cea868b70d68 ("fortify: Add run-time WARN for cross-field memcpy()")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> [...]
> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
> [...]
> [   95.913726][   T36] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 16) of single field "&compat_event->pointer" at net/wireless/wext-core.c:623 (size 4)

This was fixed with:
e3e6e1d16a4c ("wifi: wext: use flex array destination for memcpy()")

I expect this will land before -rc1 closes, but Johannes will know more
about the schedule.

-- 
Kees Cook