Re: [fortify] 54d9469bc5: WARNING:at_fs/nfs/namespace.c:#nfs_d_automount

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Oct 11 2022 - 02:54:09 EST


On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 11:45:56AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-11):
>
> commit: 54d9469bc515dc5fcbc20eecbe19cea868b70d68 ("fortify: Add run-time WARN for cross-field memcpy()")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>
> [...]
> [ 57.256986][ T4357] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 28) of single field "&ctx->nfs_server.address" at fs/nfs/namespace.c:178 (size 16)

Thanks for the report! I've sent a patch for this now:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221011065243.583650-1-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx/

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Kees Cook