From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] kasan: avoid -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:35:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG_fn=UzULc1oRfF5BVHXgfKOC6eoGuwwT1cJ9oHJO7hCNzscQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170721210251.3378996-1-arnd@arndb.de>
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> gcc-7 produces this warning:
>
> mm/kasan/report.c: In function 'kasan_report':
> mm/kasan/report.c:351:3: error: 'info.first_bad_addr' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> print_shadow_for_address(info->first_bad_addr);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> mm/kasan/report.c:360:27: note: 'info.first_bad_addr' was declared here
>
> The code seems fine as we only print info.first_bad_addr when there is a shadow,
> and we always initialize it in that case, but this is relatively hard
> for gcc to figure out after the latest rework. Adding an intialization
> in the other code path gets rid of the warning.
>
> Fixes: b235b9808664 ("kasan: unify report headers")
> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9641417/
> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> Originally submitted on March 23, but unfortunately is still needed,
> as verified on 4.13-rc1, with aarch64-linux-gcc-7.1.1
>
> v2: add a comment as Andrew suggested
> ---
> mm/kasan/report.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
> index 04bb1d3eb9ec..28fb222ab149 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/report.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
> @@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ static const char *get_wild_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
> {
> const char *bug_type = "unknown-crash";
>
> + /* shut up spurious -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning */
> + info->first_bad_addr = (void *)(-1ul);
> +
Why don't we initialize info.first_bad_addr in kasan_report(), where
info is allocated?
> if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < PAGE_SIZE)
> bug_type = "null-ptr-deref";
> else if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < TASK_SIZE)
> --
> 2.9.0
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-24 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-21 21:02 [PATCH] [v2] kasan: avoid -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning Arnd Bergmann
2017-07-24 11:35 ` Alexander Potapenko [this message]
2017-07-25 7:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-07-25 12:06 ` Andrey Ryabinin
2017-07-25 14:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
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