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Re: [PATCH] xfs: avoid null *src in memcpy call in xlog_write

To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: avoid null *src in memcpy call in xlog_write
From: "Bill O'Donnell" <billodo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:48:48 -0500
Cc: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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In-reply-to: <56154967.70100@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:33:43AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> The gcc undefined behavior sanitizer caught this; surely
> any sane memcpy implementation will no-op if size == 0,
> but behavior with a *src of NULL is technically undefined
> (declared nonnull), so avoid it here.
> 
> We are actually in this situation frequently via
> xlog_commit_record(), because:
> 
>         struct xfs_log_iovec reg = {
>                 .i_addr = NULL,
>                 .i_len = 0,
>                 .i_type = XLOG_REG_TYPE_COMMIT,
>         };
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
> index 4012523..8897fd1 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
> @@ -2424,7 +2424,10 @@ xlog_write(
>  
>                       /* copy region */
>                       ASSERT(copy_len >= 0);
> -                     memcpy(ptr, reg->i_addr + copy_off, copy_len);
> +                     ASSERT(reg->i_addr + copy_off > 0 || copy_len == 0);
> +                     /* size == 0 is ok, but *src == NULL is undefined */
> +                     if (reg->i_addr + copy_off)
> +                             memcpy(ptr, reg->i_addr + copy_off, copy_len);
>                       xlog_write_adv_cnt(&ptr, &len, &log_offset, copy_len);
>  
>                       copy_len += start_rec_copy + sizeof(xlog_op_header_t);
> 
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