mm/uaccess: Use 'unsigned long' to placate UBSAN warnings on older GCC versions
Randy reported objtool triggered on his (GCC-7.4) build:
lib/strncpy_from_user.o: warning: objtool: strncpy_from_user()+0x315: call to __ubsan_handle_add_overflow() with UACCESS enabled
lib/strnlen_user.o: warning: objtool: strnlen_user()+0x337: call to __ubsan_handle_sub_overflow() with UACCESS enabled
This is due to UBSAN generating signed-overflow-UB warnings where it
should not. Prior to GCC-8 UBSAN ignored -fwrapv (which the kernel
uses through -fno-strict-overflow).
Make the functions use 'unsigned long' throughout.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> # build-tested
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
diff --git a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
index 58eacd4..023ba9f 100644
--- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
+++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@
* hit it), 'max' is the address space maximum (and we return
* -EFAULT if we hit it).
*/
-static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long count, unsigned long max)
+static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src,
+ unsigned long count, unsigned long max)
{
const struct word_at_a_time constants = WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS;
- long res = 0;
+ unsigned long res = 0;
/*
* Truncate 'max' to the user-specified limit, so that
