Re: [PATCH 1/4] misc: xilinx_sdfec: Fix a couple small information leaks

From: Michal Simek
Date: Thu Aug 22 2019 - 09:44:52 EST


On 22. 08. 19 10:28, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:14:12AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> On 21. 08. 19 9:06, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>> These structs have holes in them so we end up disclosing a few bytes of
>>> uninitialized stack data.
>>>
>>> drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c:305 xsdfec_get_status() warn: check that 'status' doesn't leak information (struct has a hole after 'activity')
>>> drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c:449 xsdfec_get_turbo() warn: check that 'turbo_params' doesn't leak information (struct has a hole after 'scale')
>>
>> Who is generating these warnings? Is this any new GCC or different tool?
>> I see that 3byte padding but never seen these warnings.
>
> This is a Smatch check.

ok. It looks like I need to update it to latest version. My version is
not showing these.

Anyway thanks for patches,
Michal