Re: [GIT PULL] gcc-plugins updates for v4.13-rc1

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Jul 05 2017 - 17:48:41 EST


On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So the issue I think would be good to fix is perhaps best explained by
> pseudo-code
>
> int testfn(struct somestruct __user *p)
> {
> struct somestruct a;
>
> initialize_struct(&a);
> if (copy_to_user(p, &a, sizeof(a)))
> return -EFAULT;
> return 0;
> }
>
> which is obviously made-up code, but is not actually entirely unrealistic.

This particular example should be handled by
scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.c, right?

Arnd