Re: -Wfortify-source in kernel/printk/printk.c

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 14:17 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (20/01/29 19:16), Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > After commit 6d485ff455e ("Improve static checks for sprintf and
> > __builtin___sprintf_chk") in clang [1], the following warning appears
> > when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled (e.g. allnoconfig):
> > 
> > ../kernel/printk/printk.c:2416:10: warning: 'sprintf' will always
> > overflow; destination buffer has size 0, but format string expands
> > to at least 33 [-Wfortify-source]
> >                         len = sprintf(text,
> >                               ^
> > 1 warning generated.
> > 
> > Specifically referring to
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.5/source/kernel/printk/printk.c#L2416.
> 
> Good catch.
> 
> > It isn't wrong, given that when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabled, text's length
> > is 0 (LOG_LINE_MAX and PREFIX_MAX are both zero). How should this
> > warning be dealt this? I am not familiar enough with the printk code to
> > say myself.
> 
> It's not wrong.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something completely obvious: with disabled printk()
> we don't have any functions that can append messages to the logbuf, hence
> we can't overflow it. So the error in question should never trigger.
> 
> - Normal printk() is void, so kernel cannot append messages;
> - dev_printk() is void, so drivers cannot append messages and dicts;
> - devkmsg_write() is void, so user space cannot write to logbuf.
> 
> So I think we should never trigger that overflow (assuming that I
> didn't miss something) message.
> 
> In any case feel free to submit a patch - switch it to snprintf().

and/or make the code depend on CONFIG_PRINTK