include/linux/fortify-string.h:571:4: warning: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with 'warning' attribute: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()?

From: kernel test robot

Date: Thu Jun 04 2026 - 13:41:06 EST


tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: ba3e43a9e601636f5edb54e259a74f96ca3b8fd8
commit: ace232eff50e8c898103c56b3b5303e776616274 drm/amdgpu: Add ras module files into amdgpu
date: 8 months ago
config: arm64-randconfig-r064-20260604 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260605/202606050130.wEjjFcZX-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 22.1.3 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project e9846648fd6183ee6d8cbdb4502213fcf902a211)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260605/202606050130.wEjjFcZX-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Fixes: ace232eff50e ("drm/amdgpu: Add ras module files into amdgpu")
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202606050130.wEjjFcZX-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

In file included from drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../ras/rascore/ras_umc.c:24:
In file included from drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../ras/rascore/ras.h:27:
In file included from drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../ras/ras_mgr/ras_sys.h:29:
In file included from include/linux/dev_printk.h:16:
In file included from include/linux/ratelimit.h:6:
In file included from include/linux/sched.h:13:
In file included from arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h:34:
In file included from include/linux/string.h:382:
>> include/linux/fortify-string.h:571:4: warning: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with 'warning' attribute: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning]
571 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
| ^
1 warning generated.


vim +571 include/linux/fortify-string.h

a28a6e860c6cf23 Francis Laniel 2021-02-25 515
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 516 /*
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 517 * To make sure the compiler can enforce protection against buffer overflows,
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 518 * memcpy(), memmove(), and memset() must not be used beyond individual
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 519 * struct members. If you need to copy across multiple members, please use
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 520 * struct_group() to create a named mirror of an anonymous struct union.
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 521 * (e.g. see struct sk_buff.) Read overflow checking is currently only
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 522 * done when a write overflow is also present, or when building with W=1.
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 523 *
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 524 * Mitigation coverage matrix
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 525 * Bounds checking at:
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 526 * +-------+-------+-------+-------+
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 527 * | Compile time | Run time |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 528 * memcpy() argument sizes: | write | read | write | read |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 529 * dest source length +-------+-------+-------+-------+
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 530 * memcpy(known, known, constant) | y | y | n/a | n/a |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 531 * memcpy(known, unknown, constant) | y | n | n/a | V |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 532 * memcpy(known, known, dynamic) | n | n | B | B |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 533 * memcpy(known, unknown, dynamic) | n | n | B | V |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 534 * memcpy(unknown, known, constant) | n | y | V | n/a |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 535 * memcpy(unknown, unknown, constant) | n | n | V | V |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 536 * memcpy(unknown, known, dynamic) | n | n | V | B |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 537 * memcpy(unknown, unknown, dynamic) | n | n | V | V |
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 538 * +-------+-------+-------+-------+
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 539 *
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 540 * y = perform deterministic compile-time bounds checking
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 541 * n = cannot perform deterministic compile-time bounds checking
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 542 * n/a = no run-time bounds checking needed since compile-time deterministic
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 543 * B = can perform run-time bounds checking (currently unimplemented)
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 544 * V = vulnerable to run-time overflow (will need refactoring to solve)
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 545 *
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 546 */
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 547 __FORTIFY_INLINE bool fortify_memcpy_chk(__kernel_size_t size,
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 548 const size_t p_size,
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 549 const size_t q_size,
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 550 const size_t p_size_field,
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 551 const size_t q_size_field,
475ddf1fce1ec48 Kees Cook 2023-04-07 552 const u8 func)
a28a6e860c6cf23 Francis Laniel 2021-02-25 553 {
a28a6e860c6cf23 Francis Laniel 2021-02-25 554 if (__builtin_constant_p(size)) {
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 555 /*
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 556 * Length argument is a constant expression, so we
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 557 * can perform compile-time bounds checking where
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 558 * buffer sizes are also known at compile time.
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 559 */
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 560
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 561 /* Error when size is larger than enclosing struct. */
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 562 if (__compiletime_lessthan(p_size_field, p_size) &&
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 563 __compiletime_lessthan(p_size, size))
a28a6e860c6cf23 Francis Laniel 2021-02-25 564 __write_overflow();
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 565 if (__compiletime_lessthan(q_size_field, q_size) &&
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 566 __compiletime_lessthan(q_size, size))
a28a6e860c6cf23 Francis Laniel 2021-02-25 567 __read_overflow2();
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 568
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 569 /* Warn when write size argument larger than dest field. */
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 570 if (__compiletime_lessthan(p_size_field, size))
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 @571 __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 572 /*
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 573 * Warn for source field over-read when building with W=1
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 574 * or when an over-write happened, so both can be fixed at
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 575 * the same time.
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 576 */
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 577 if ((IS_ENABLED(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN1) ||
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 578 __compiletime_lessthan(p_size_field, size)) &&
fa35198f39571bb Kees Cook 2022-09-19 579 __compiletime_lessthan(q_size_field, size))
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 580 __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size);
a28a6e860c6cf23 Francis Laniel 2021-02-25 581 }
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 582 /*
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 583 * At this point, length argument may not be a constant expression,
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 584 * so run-time bounds checking can be done where buffer sizes are
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 585 * known. (This is not an "else" because the above checks may only
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 586 * be compile-time warnings, and we want to still warn for run-time
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 587 * overflows.)
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 588 */
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 589
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 590 /*
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 591 * Always stop accesses beyond the struct that contains the
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 592 * field, when the buffer's remaining size is known.
311fb40aa0569ab Kees Cook 2022-09-02 593 * (The SIZE_MAX test is to optimize away checks where the buffer
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 594 * lengths are unknown.)
f68f2ff91512c19 Kees Cook 2021-04-20 595 */
475ddf1fce1ec48 Kees Cook 2023-04-07 596 if (p_size != SIZE_MAX && p_size < size)
3d965b33e40d973 Kees Cook 2023-04-07 597 fortify_panic(func, FORTIFY_WRITE, p_size, size, true);
475ddf1fce1ec48 Kees Cook 2023-04-07 598 else if (q_size != SIZE_MAX && q_size < size)
94fd44648dae2a5 Kees Cook 2025-07-29 599 fortify_panic(func, FORTIFY_READ, q_size, size, true);
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 600
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 601 /*
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 602 * Warn when writing beyond destination field size.
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 603 *
2003e483a81cc23 Kees Cook 2024-06-19 604 * Note the implementation of __builtin_*object_size() behaves
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 605 * like sizeof() when not directly referencing a flexible
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 606 * array member, which means there will be many bounds checks
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 607 * that will appear at run-time, without a way for them to be
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 608 * detected at compile-time (as can be done when the destination
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 609 * is specifically the flexible array member).
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 610 * https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101832
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 611 */
2003e483a81cc23 Kees Cook 2024-06-19 612 if (p_size_field != SIZE_MAX &&
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 613 p_size != p_size_field && p_size_field < size)
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 614 return true;
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 615
54d9469bc515dc5 Kees Cook 2021-06-24 616 return false;
a28a6e860c6cf23 Francis Laniel 2021-02-25 617 }
a28a6e860c6cf23 Francis Laniel 2021-02-25 618

:::::: The code at line 571 was first introduced by commit
:::::: f68f2ff91512c199ec24883001245912afc17873 fortify: Detect struct member overflows in memcpy() at compile-time

:::::: TO: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
:::::: CC: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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