Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the akpm-current tree

From: Walter Wu
Date: Fri Mar 06 2020 - 15:46:01 EST


On Sat, 2020-03-07 at 02:59 +0800, Walter Wu wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 20:33 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Walter,
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 16:54:36 +0800 Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm sorry for the build warning, it doesn't generate in our local
> > > environment(arm64/x86_64). Would you tell me what toolchains can
> > > reproduce it?
> >
> > I am using a PowerPC LE hosted x86_64 gcc v9.2.1 (Debian cross compiler).
> >
> > $ /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc --version
> > x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 9.2.1-21) 9.2.1 20191130
> >
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Thanks for your information, It doesn't generate warning message in
> gcc-8.3.0(Debian 8.3.0-6) after apply below patch.
>
>
> --- a/lib/test_kasan.c
> +++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
> @@ -286,17 +286,19 @@ static noinline void __init
> kmalloc_oob_in_memset(void)
> static noinline void __init kmalloc_memmove_invalid_size(void)
> {
> char *ptr;
> - size_t size = 64;
> + size_t size1 = 64;
> + size_t size2 = 62;
>
> pr_info("invalid size in memmove\n");
> - ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + ptr = kmalloc(size1, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!ptr) {
> pr_err("Allocation failed\n");
> return;
> }
>
> - memset((char *)ptr, 0, 64);
> - memmove((char *)ptr, (char *)ptr + 4, -2);
> + memset((char *)ptr, 0, size1);
> + /* the size of memmove() is negative numbers */
> + memmove((char *)ptr, (char *)ptr + 4, size2 - size1);
> kfree(ptr);
> }
>
Hi Stephen,

Please ignore previous mail, I miss the message. Below the patch will
fix the warning.


--- a/lib/test_kasan.c
+++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
@@ -286,17 +286,19 @@ static noinline void __init
kmalloc_oob_in_memset(void)
static noinline void __init kmalloc_memmove_invalid_size(void)
{
char *ptr;
- size_t size = 64;
+ size_t size1 = 64;
+ volatile size_t size2 = -2;

pr_info("invalid size in memmove\n");
- ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ptr = kmalloc(size1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ptr) {
pr_err("Allocation failed\n");
return;
}

- memset((char *)ptr, 0, 64);
- memmove((char *)ptr, (char *)ptr + 4, -2);
+ memset((char *)ptr, 0, size1);
+ /* the size of memmove() is negative number */
+ memmove((char *)ptr, (char *)ptr + 4, size2);
kfree(ptr);
}