Hi!

> From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 3e1730842f142add55dc658929221521a9ea62b6 ]
> 
> Clang produces a false positive when building with CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y
> and CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y when operating on an array with a dynamic
> offset. Work around this by using a direct assignment of an empty
> instance. Avoids this warning:
> 
> ../include/linux/fortify-string.h:309:4: warning: call to __write_overflow_field declared with 'warn
> ing' attribute: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wat
> tribute-warning]
>                         __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
>                         ^
> 
> which was isolated to the memset() call in xen_load_idt().
> 
> Note that this looks very much like another bug that was worked around:
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1592

We don't have CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS in 4.19, so maybe we don't need this
one?

Best regards,
								Pavel
								
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
> @@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ static void xen_load_idt(const struct desc_ptr *desc)
>  {
>  	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock);
>  	static struct trap_info traps[257];
> +	static const struct trap_info zero = { };
>  	unsigned out;
>  
>  	trace_xen_cpu_load_idt(desc);
> @@ -761,7 +762,7 @@ static void xen_load_idt(const struct desc_ptr *desc)
>  	memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&idt_desc), desc, sizeof(idt_desc));
>  
>  	out = xen_convert_trap_info(desc, traps, false);
> -	memset(&traps[out], 0, sizeof(traps[0]));
> +	traps[out] = zero;
>  
>  	xen_mc_flush();
>  	if (HYPERVISOR_set_trap_table(traps))
> -- 
> 2.35.1
> 
> 

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