On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:23:11AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:17:16AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 04:52:09PM +0000, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > virtio wants to read bitwise types from userspace using get_user. At the
> > > moment this triggers sparse errors, since the value is passed through an
> > > integer.
> > >
> > > Fix that up using __force.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > index 3bf8f4e..8d66bcf 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
> > > @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ do {
> > > \
> > > default: \
> > > BUILD_BUG(); \
> > > } \
> > > - (x) = (__typeof__(*(ptr)))__gu_val; \
> > > + (x) = (__force __typeof__(*(ptr)))__gu_val;
> > > \
> > > } while (0)
> > >
> > > #define __get_user(x, ptr)
> > > \
> >
> > Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
>
> This also means you can do stuff like:
>
> u32 *p;
> __le32 v;
>
> err = get_user(p, v);
>
> which is not right.
Are you sure? We are casting to __typeof__(*(ptr))),
then assigning to x. So if *p and v are different sparse will
still warn.
> Both the dereferenced pointer type and the destination
> type should be compatible, and if one is a bitwise type but the other isn't,
> that seems like a valid case to warn.
>
> I don't see any use of get_user() in drivers/virtio in mainline, so I can't
> check further.
It's not in drivers/virtio.
We have a work around upstream (uses __get_user + access_ok).
Try this patch reverting the work-around, you will see the sparse
warning:
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index ed71b53..4c83be8 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -1047,9 +1047,7 @@ int vhost_init_used(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
if (r)
return r;
vq->signalled_used_valid = false;
- if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, &vq->used->idx, sizeof vq->used->idx))
- return -EFAULT;
- r = __get_user(last_used_idx, &vq->used->idx);
+ r = get_user(last_used_idx, &vq->used->idx);
if (r)
return r;
vq->last_used_idx = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, last_used_idx);
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