RE: [GIT PULL] Enable -Wstringop-overflow globally

[David Laight]

From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 26 January 2024 22:36
> 
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 14:24, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I think xe has some other weird problems too. This may be related (under
> > allocating):
> >
> > ../drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c: In function 'xe_vma_create':
> > ../drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_vm.c:806:21: warning: allocation of insufficient size '224' for type
> 'struct xe_vma' with size '368' [-Walloc-size]
> >   806 |                 vma = kzalloc(sizeof(*vma) - sizeof(struct xe_userptr),
> >       |                     ^
> 
> That code is indeed odd, but there's a comment in the xe_vma definition
> 
>         /**
>          * @userptr: user pointer state, only allocated for VMAs that are
>          * user pointers
>          */
>         struct xe_userptr userptr;
> 
> although I agree that it should probably simply be made a final
> variably-sized array instead (and then you make that array size be
> 0/1).

That entire code is odd.
It isn't obvious that the flag values that cause the short allocate
are the same ones that control whether the extra data is accessed.

Never mind the oddities with the 'flags |= ' assignments int the
'remap next' path.

Anyone know how many of these actually get allocated (and their
lifetimes)?
How much difference would it make to allocate 368 (maybe 384?)
bytes instead of 224 (likely 256).

	David

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