From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove accidental VLA usage
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 12:49:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180308124913.858b2693a14c25d6dcc66b4a@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180308150236.5tysfbm3xdouii5n@treble>
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 09:02:36 -0600 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 07:30:44PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > This series adds SIMPLE_MAX() to be used in places where a stack array
> > is actually fixed, but the compiler still warns about VLA usage due to
> > confusion caused by the safety checks in the max() macro.
> >
> > I'm sending these via -mm since that's where I've introduced SIMPLE_MAX(),
> > and they should all have no operational differences.
>
> What if we instead simplify the max() macro's type checking so that GCC
> can more easily fold the array size constants? The below patch seems to
> work:
>
> -/*
> - * min()/max()/clamp() macros that also do
> - * strict type-checking.. See the
> - * "unnecessary" pointer comparison.
> - */
> -#define __min(t1, t2, min1, min2, x, y) ({ \
> - t1 min1 = (x); \
> - t2 min2 = (y); \
> - (void) (&min1 == &min2); \
> - min1 < min2 ? min1 : min2; })
> +extern long __error_incompatible_types_in_min_macro;
> +extern long __error_incompatible_types_in_max_macro;
> +
> +#define __min(t1, t2, x, y) \
> + __builtin_choose_expr(__builtin_types_compatible_p(t1, t2), \
> + (t1)(x) < (t2)(y) ? (t1)(x) : (t2)(y), \
> + (t1)__error_incompatible_types_in_min_macro)
This will move the error detection from compile-time to link-time.
That's tolerable I guess, but a bit sad and should be flagged in the
changelog at least.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-08 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-08 3:30 [PATCH 0/3] Remove accidental VLA usage Kees Cook
2018-03-08 3:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] vsprintf: " Kees Cook
2018-03-08 8:25 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-03-08 11:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-08 3:30 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: Remove accidental VLAs from proc buffers Kees Cook
2018-03-08 3:30 ` [PATCH 3/3] btrfs: tree-checker: Avoid accidental stack VLA Kees Cook
2018-03-08 11:33 ` David Sterba
2018-03-08 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/3] Remove accidental VLA usage Josh Poimboeuf
2018-03-08 18:02 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-08 18:11 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-03-08 18:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-08 19:57 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-03-08 20:39 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-08 22:12 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2018-03-08 23:33 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-08 20:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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