From 6301939d97d079f0d3dbe71e750f4daf5d39fc33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:40:13 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] module: fix types of device tables aliases MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro used to create aliases to device tables. Normally alias should have the same type as aliased symbol. Device tables are arrays, so they have 'struct type##_device_id[x]' types. Alias created by MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() will have non-array type - 'struct type##_device_id'. This inconsistency confuses compiler, it could make a wrong assumption about variable's size which leads KASan to produce a false positive report about out of bounds access. For every global variable compiler calls __asan_register_globals() passing information about global variable (address, size, size with redzone, name ...) __asan_register_globals() poison symbols redzone to detect possible out of bounds accesses. When symbol has an alias __asan_register_globals() will be called as for symbol so for alias. Compiler determines size of variable by size of variable's type. Alias and symbol have the same address, so if alias have the wrong size part of memory that actually belongs to the symbol could be poisoned as redzone of alias symbol. By fixing type of alias symbol we will fix size of it, so __asan_register_globals() will not poison valid memory. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Konstantin Serebryany Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Yuri Gribov Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/module.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index b653d7c0a05a..42999fe2dbd0 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ void trim_init_extable(struct module *m); #ifdef MODULE /* Creates an alias so file2alias.c can find device table. */ #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name) \ - extern const struct type##_device_id __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table \ +extern const typeof(name) __mod_##type##__##name##_device_table \ __attribute__ ((unused, alias(__stringify(name)))) #else /* !MODULE */ #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name)