ath11k: Wstringop-overread warning
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:52:52 +0000 (16:52 +0300)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:03:27 +0000 (12:03 +0300)
commiteb19efed836a51ee30a602abe2dd21a97c47bbcc
tree6352f16a1d9b311c5884568b665a90e454d09695
parentb72e86c07e9881d249fbb7511060692f3fb6b687
ath11k: Wstringop-overread warning

gcc-11 with the kernel address sanitizer prints a warning for this
driver:

In function 'ath11k_peer_assoc_h_vht',
    inlined from 'ath11k_peer_assoc_prepare' at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:1632:2:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:1164:13: error: 'ath11k_peer_assoc_h_vht_masked' reading 16 bytes from a region of size 4 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
 1164 |         if (ath11k_peer_assoc_h_vht_masked(vht_mcs_mask))
      |             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c: In function 'ath11k_peer_assoc_prepare':
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:1164:13: note: referencing argument 1 of type 'const u16 *' {aka 'const short unsigned int *'}
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:969:1: note: in a call to function 'ath11k_peer_assoc_h_vht_masked'
  969 | ath11k_peer_assoc_h_vht_masked(const u16 vht_mcs_mask[NL80211_VHT_NSS_MAX])
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

According to analysis from gcc developers, this is a glitch in the
way gcc tracks the size of struct members. This should really get
fixed in gcc, but it's also easy to work around this instance
by changing the function prototype to no include the length of
the array.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99673
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322160253.4032422-5-arnd@kernel.org
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c