5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Kees Cook kees@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 5c3793604f91123bf49bc792ce697a0bef4c173c ]
The never-taken branch leads to an invalid bounds condition, which is by design. To avoid the unwanted warning from the compiler, hide the variable from the optimizer.
../lib/stackinit_kunit.c: In function 'do_nothing_u16_zero': ../lib/stackinit_kunit.c:51:49: error: array subscript 1 is outside array bounds of 'u16[0]' {aka 'short unsigned int[]'} [-Werror=array-bounds=] 51 | #define DO_NOTHING_RETURN_SCALAR(ptr) *(ptr) | ^~~~~~ ../lib/stackinit_kunit.c:219:24: note: in expansion of macro 'DO_NOTHING_RETURN_SCALAR' 219 | return DO_NOTHING_RETURN_ ## which(ptr + 1); \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241117113813.work.735-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook kees@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- lib/test_stackinit.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/lib/test_stackinit.c b/lib/test_stackinit.c index a3c74e6a21ff..56653c6a2a61 100644 --- a/lib/test_stackinit.c +++ b/lib/test_stackinit.c @@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static noinline __init int test_ ## name (void) \ static noinline __init DO_NOTHING_TYPE_ ## which(var_type) \ do_nothing_ ## name(var_type *ptr) \ { \ + OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR(ptr); \ /* Will always be true, but compiler doesn't know. */ \ if ((unsigned long)ptr > 0x2) \ return DO_NOTHING_RETURN_ ## which(ptr); \