On 5/2/19 7:30 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> When building with -Wuninitialized and CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS unset, Clang
> warns:
>
> mm/kasan/common.c:484:40: warning: variable 'tag' is uninitialized when
> used here [-Wuninitialized]
> kasan_unpoison_shadow(set_tag(object, tag), size);
> ^~~
>
> set_tag ignores tag in this configuration but clang doesn't realize it
> at this point in its pipeline, as it points to arch_kasan_set_tag as
> being the point where it is used, which will later be expanded to
> (void *)(object) without a use of tag. Initialize tag to 0xff, as it
> removes this warning and doesn't change the meaning of the code.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/465
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
Fixes: 7f94ffbc4c6a ("kasan: add hooks implementation for tag-based mode")
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> * Initialize tag to 0xff at Andrey's request
>
> mm/kasan/common.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
> index 36afcf64e016..242fdc01aaa9 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/common.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
> @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ static void *__kasan_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache,
> const void *object,
> {
> unsigned long redzone_start;
> unsigned long redzone_end;
> - u8 tag;
> + u8 tag = 0xff;
>
> if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(flags))
> quarantine_reduce();
>
