[PATCH] [RESEND] net: stmmac: fix gcc-10 -Wrestrict warning
Russell King (Oracle)
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Mon Sep 27 06:26:06 PDT 2021
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:02:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> gcc-10 and later warn about a theoretical array overrun when
> accessing priv->int_name_rx_irq[i] with an out of bounds value
> of 'i':
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c: In function 'stmmac_request_irq_multi_msi':
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c:3528:17: error: 'snprintf' argument 4 may overlap destination object 'dev' [-Werror=restrict]
> 3528 | snprintf(int_name, int_name_len, "%s:%s-%d", dev->name, "tx", i);
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c:3404:60: note: destination object referenced by 'restrict'-qualified argument 1 was declared here
> 3404 | static int stmmac_request_irq_multi_msi(struct net_device *dev)
> | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
>
> The warning is a bit strange since it's not actually about the array
> bounds but rather about possible string operations with overlapping
> arguments, but it's not technically wrong.
>
> Avoid the warning by adding an extra bounds check.
>
> Fixes: 8532f613bc78 ("net: stmmac: introduce MSI Interrupt routines for mac, safety, RX & TX")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210421134743.3260921-1-arnd@kernel.org/
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index 553c4403258a..640c0ffdff3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -3502,6 +3502,8 @@ static int stmmac_request_irq_multi_msi(struct net_device *dev)
>
> /* Request Rx MSI irq */
> for (i = 0; i < priv->plat->rx_queues_to_use; i++) {
> + if (i > MTL_MAX_RX_QUEUES)
> + break;
> if (priv->rx_irq[i] == 0)
> continue;
This looks rather weird. rx_irq[] is defined as:
int rx_irq[MTL_MAX_RX_QUEUES];
If "i" were to become MTL_MAX_RX_QUEUES, then the above code overlows
the array.
So while this may stop gcc-10 complaining, I'd argue that making the
new test ">=" rather than ">" would have also made it look correct.
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