From: Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/swap: Avoid undefined behavior in __swapoffset
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 20:47:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANdKZ0ez+y1rCEGszqzJp4Oz94dMpTF6NCR11yGVZaJyM1ZD4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190307122313.GA30234@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:23 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu 07-03-19 17:46:50, Pi-Hsun Shih wrote:
> > Use offsetof to calculate offset of a field to avoid UBSAN warning like:
> >
> > ===================================================================
> > UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in mm/swapfile.c:3010:38
> > member access within null pointer of type 'union swap_header'
> > CPU: 6 PID: 1833 Comm: swapon Tainted: G S 4.19.23 #43
> > Call trace:
> > dump_backtrace+0x0/0x194
> > show_stack+0x20/0x2c
> > __dump_stack+0x20/0x28
> > dump_stack+0x70/0x94
> > ubsan_epilogue+0x14/0x44
> > ubsan_type_mismatch_common+0xf4/0xfc
> > __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1+0x34/0x54
> > __se_sys_swapon+0x654/0x1084
> > __arm64_sys_swapon+0x1c/0x24
> > el0_svc_common+0xa8/0x150
> > el0_svc_compat_handler+0x2c/0x38
> > el0_svc_compat+0x8/0x18
> > ==================================================================
>
> Could you be more specific about what exactly is undefined here and
> why offsetof is any better. AFAIR it uses the same construct unless a
> compiler defines a built in.
>
> I do not object the change itself because it is cleaner to use the
> existing helper but I am wondering why this is fixing ubsan. Is ubsan
> defining the compiler variant and consider it safe?
>
The undefined behavior is from trying to accessing a member of NULL,
even not using it value but only use the address.
Since the compiler variant for offsetof is used for recent compiler
(GCC >= 4 has support for it), ubsan would not warn if the compiler
variant is used. For old compiler, I guess ubsan would complain on all
offsetof uses.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-07 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-07 9:46 [PATCH] mm/swap: Avoid undefined behavior in __swapoffset Pi-Hsun Shih
2019-03-07 12:23 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-07 12:47 ` Pi-Hsun Shih [this message]
2019-03-07 13:23 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-12 7:02 ` Pi-Hsun Shih
2019-03-12 8:07 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-12 8:12 ` Pi-Hsun Shih
2019-03-12 8:18 ` [PATCH v2] mm/swap: Use offsetof instead of custom __swapoffset macro Pi-Hsun Shih
2019-03-12 8:26 ` Michal Hocko
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