Re: [PATCH] jfs: Use unsigned variable for length calculations

[Dave Kleikamp]

I apologize to all of you for letting this one go so long.

Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>

On 6/2/23 3:32AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Feb 2023 10:33:56 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > To avoid confusing the compiler about possible negative sizes, switch
> > "ssize" which can never be negative from int to u32.  Seen with GCC 13:
> >
> > ../fs/jfs/namei.c: In function 'jfs_symlink': ../include/linux/fortify-string.h:57:33: warning: '__builtin_memcpy' pointer overflow between offset 0 and size [-2147483648, -1]
> > [-Warray-bounds=]
> >     57 | #define __underlying_memcpy     __builtin_memcpy
> >        |                                 ^
> > ...
> > ../fs/jfs/namei.c:950:17: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy'
> >    950 |                 memcpy(ip->i_link, name, ssize);
> >        |                 ^~~~~~
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
> Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.
>
> Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
> new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.
>
> It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
> patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.
>
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
> branch: vfs.misc
>
> [1/1] jfs: Use unsigned variable for length calculations
>        https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2d6e1895d440