RE: [PATCH] crypto/caam: Avoid GCC constprop bug warning

[David Laight]

From: Kees Cook
> Sent: 28 October 2022 22:06
> 
> GCC 12 appears to perform constant propagation incompletely(?) and can
> no longer notice that "len" is always 0 when "data" is NULL. Expand the
> check to avoid warnings about memcpy() having a NULL argument:
...
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/caam/desc_constr.h b/drivers/crypto/caam/desc_constr.h
> index 62ce6421bb3f..ddbba8b00ab7 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/caam/desc_constr.h
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/caam/desc_constr.h
> @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static inline void append_data(u32 * const desc, const void *data, int len)
>  {
>  	u32 *offset = desc_end(desc);
> 
> -	if (len) /* avoid sparse warning: memcpy with byte count of 0 */
> +	if (data && len) /* avoid sparse warning: memcpy with byte count of 0 */
>  		memcpy(offset, data, len);

I'd guess non-constant zero lengths are unlikely?
So how about:
	/* Avoid calling memcpy() when there is never a buffer */
	if (!__builtin_constant(len) || len)
		memcpy(offset, data, len);

Then the test should never actually end up in the object code.

	David

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