[PATCH] wifi: ath10k: fix clang-specific fortify warning

Dmitry Antipov dmantipov at yandex.ru
Tue Aug 29 02:36:02 PDT 2023


When compiling with clang 16.0.6 and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y, I've
noticed the following (somewhat confusing due to absence of an actual
source code location):

In file included from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c:8:
In file included from ./include/linux/module.h:13:
In file included from ./include/linux/stat.h:19:
In file included from ./include/linux/time.h:60:
In file included from ./include/linux/time32.h:13:
In file included from ./include/linux/timex.h:67:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h:5:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:23:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:11:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:5:
In file included from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12:
In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:11:
In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:254:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:592:4: warning: call to '__read_overflow2_field'
declared with 'warning' attribute: detected read beyond size of field (2nd
parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
                        __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size);

The compiler actually complains on 'ath10k_debug_get_et_strings()' where
fortification logic inteprets call to 'memcpy()' as an attempt to copy
the whole 'ath10k_gstrings_stats' array from it's first member and so
issues an overread warning. This warning may be silenced by passing
an address of the whole array and not the first member to 'memcpy()'.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov at yandex.ru>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
index f9518e1c9903..fe89bc61e531 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/debug.c
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ void ath10k_debug_get_et_strings(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 				 u32 sset, u8 *data)
 {
 	if (sset == ETH_SS_STATS)
-		memcpy(data, *ath10k_gstrings_stats,
+		memcpy(data, ath10k_gstrings_stats,
 		       sizeof(ath10k_gstrings_stats));
 }
 
-- 
2.41.0




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