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[net-next,08/11] ath9k: work around false-positive gcc warning

Message ID 20201026213040.3889546-8-arnd@kernel.org
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Series [net-next,01/11] atm: horizon: shut up clang null pointer arithmetic warning | expand

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Arnd Bergmann Oct. 26, 2020, 9:29 p.m. UTC
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

gcc-10 shows a false-positive warning with CONFIG_KASAN:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c: In function 'ath_dynack_sample_tx_ts':
include/linux/etherdevice.h:290:14: warning: writing 4 bytes into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
  290 |  *(u32 *)dst = *(const u32 *)src;
      |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Until gcc is fixed, work around this by using memcpy() in place
of ether_addr_copy(). Hopefully gcc-11 will not have this problem.

Link: https://godbolt.org/z/sab1MK
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97490
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Comments

Kalle Valo Nov. 2, 2020, 4:26 p.m. UTC | #1
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

>

> gcc-10 shows a false-positive warning with CONFIG_KASAN:

>

> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c: In function 'ath_dynack_sample_tx_ts':

> include/linux/etherdevice.h:290:14: warning: writing 4 bytes into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]

>   290 |  *(u32 *)dst = *(const u32 *)src;

>       |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

> Until gcc is fixed, work around this by using memcpy() in place

> of ether_addr_copy(). Hopefully gcc-11 will not have this problem.

>

> Link: https://godbolt.org/z/sab1MK

> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97490

> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> ---

>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c | 6 ++++++

>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

>

> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c

> index fbeb4a739d32..e4eb96b26ca4 100644

> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c

> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c

> @@ -247,8 +247,14 @@ void ath_dynack_sample_tx_ts(struct ath_hw *ah, struct sk_buff *skb,

>  	ridx = ts->ts_rateindex;

>  

>  	da->st_rbf.ts[da->st_rbf.t_rb].tstamp = ts->ts_tstamp;

> +#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN) && (CONFIG_GCC_VERSION >= 100000) && (CONFIG_GCC_VERSION < 110000)

> +	/* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97490 */

> +	memcpy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_dest, hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN);

> +	memcpy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_src, hdr->addr2, ETH_ALEN);

> +#else

>  	ether_addr_copy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_dest, hdr->addr1);

>  	ether_addr_copy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_src, hdr->addr2);

> +#endif


Isn't there a better way to handle this? I really would not want
checking for GCC versions become a common approach in drivers.

I even think that using memcpy() always is better than the ugly ifdef.

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Johannes Berg Nov. 2, 2020, 5:59 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 18:26 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:

> 

> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> > 

> > gcc-10 shows a false-positive warning with CONFIG_KASAN:

> > 

> > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c: In function 'ath_dynack_sample_tx_ts':

> > include/linux/etherdevice.h:290:14: warning: writing 4 bytes into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]

> >   290 |  *(u32 *)dst = *(const u32 *)src;

> >       |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> > 

> > Until gcc is fixed, work around this by using memcpy() in place

> > of ether_addr_copy(). Hopefully gcc-11 will not have this problem.

> > 

> > Link: https://godbolt.org/z/sab1MK

> > Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97490

> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> > ---

> >  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c | 6 ++++++

> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

> > 

> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c

> > index fbeb4a739d32..e4eb96b26ca4 100644

> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c

> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c

> > @@ -247,8 +247,14 @@ void ath_dynack_sample_tx_ts(struct ath_hw *ah, struct sk_buff *skb,

> >  	ridx = ts->ts_rateindex;

> >  

> >  	da->st_rbf.ts[da->st_rbf.t_rb].tstamp = ts->ts_tstamp;

> > +#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN) && (CONFIG_GCC_VERSION >= 100000) && (CONFIG_GCC_VERSION < 110000)

> > +	/* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97490 */

> > +	memcpy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_dest, hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN);

> > +	memcpy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_src, hdr->addr2, ETH_ALEN);

> > +#else

> >  	ether_addr_copy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_dest, hdr->addr1);

> >  	ether_addr_copy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_src, hdr->addr2);

> > +#endif

> 

> Isn't there a better way to handle this? I really would not want

> checking for GCC versions become a common approach in drivers.

> 

> I even think that using memcpy() always is better than the ugly ifdef.


If you put memcpy() always somebody will surely go and clean it up to
use ether_addr_copy() soon ...

That said, if there's a gcc issue with ether_addr_copy() then how come
it's specific to this place?

johannes
Arnd Bergmann Nov. 2, 2020, 10:29 p.m. UTC | #3
On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 7:01 PM Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 18:26 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:
> > > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > Isn't there a better way to handle this? I really would not want
> > checking for GCC versions become a common approach in drivers.
> >
> > I even think that using memcpy() always is better than the ugly ifdef.
>
> If you put memcpy() always somebody will surely go and clean it up to
> use ether_addr_copy() soon ...
>
> That said, if there's a gcc issue with ether_addr_copy() then how come
> it's specific to this place?

I have not been able to figure this out, hopefully some gcc developer
eventually looks at the bug in more detail.

Presumably it has something to do with the specific way the five levels
of structures are nested here, and how things get inlined in this driver.
If the bug happened everywhere, it would likely have been found and
fixed earlier.

       Arnd
Arnd Bergmann Nov. 7, 2020, 11:36 a.m. UTC | #4
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 12:21 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

> > On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 18:26 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:

> >> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:

> >> Isn't there a better way to handle this? I really would not want

> >> checking for GCC versions become a common approach in drivers.

> >>

> >> I even think that using memcpy() always is better than the ugly ifdef.

> >

> > If you put memcpy() always somebody will surely go and clean it up to

> > use ether_addr_copy() soon ...

>

> I can always add a comment and hope that the cleanup people read

> comments :) I did that now in the pending branch:

>

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=25cfc077bd7a798d1aa527ad2aa9932bb3284376

>

> Does that look ok? I prefer that over the ifdef.


Fine with me. My original reason for the compiler version check
was that we can eventually restore the previous version once the
compiler is fixed for long enough that all broken compilers are
too old to build the kernel, in maybe six years from now at the
current rate of deprecating old compilers.

       Arnd
Kalle Valo Nov. 10, 2020, 6:13 p.m. UTC | #5
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:

> gcc-10 shows a false-positive warning with CONFIG_KASAN:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c: In function 'ath_dynack_sample_tx_ts':
> include/linux/etherdevice.h:290:14: warning: writing 4 bytes into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
>   290 |  *(u32 *)dst = *(const u32 *)src;
>       |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Until gcc is fixed, work around this by using memcpy() in place
> of ether_addr_copy(). Hopefully gcc-11 will not have this problem.
> 
> Link: https://godbolt.org/z/sab1MK
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97490
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> [kvalo@codeaurora.org: remove ifdef and add a comment]
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

b96fab4e3602 ath9k: work around false-positive gcc warning
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c
index fbeb4a739d32..e4eb96b26ca4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/dynack.c
@@ -247,8 +247,14 @@  void ath_dynack_sample_tx_ts(struct ath_hw *ah, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	ridx = ts->ts_rateindex;
 
 	da->st_rbf.ts[da->st_rbf.t_rb].tstamp = ts->ts_tstamp;
+#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN) && (CONFIG_GCC_VERSION >= 100000) && (CONFIG_GCC_VERSION < 110000)
+	/* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97490 */
+	memcpy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_dest, hdr->addr1, ETH_ALEN);
+	memcpy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_src, hdr->addr2, ETH_ALEN);
+#else
 	ether_addr_copy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_dest, hdr->addr1);
 	ether_addr_copy(da->st_rbf.addr[da->st_rbf.t_rb].h_src, hdr->addr2);
+#endif
 
 	if (!(info->status.rates[ridx].flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS)) {
 		const struct ieee80211_rate *rate;