Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@linux.intel.com> writes:
> On Tue, 07 Nov 2023, Sam James <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> GCC 14 introduces a new -Walloc-size included in -Wextra which errors out
>> like:
>> ```
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c: In function
>> ‘eb_copy_relocations’:
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c:1681:24: error: allocation of
>> insufficient size ‘1’ for type ‘struct drm_i915_gem_relocation_entry’ with
>> size ‘32’ [-Werror=alloc-size]
>> 1681 | relocs = kvmalloc_array(size, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>> | ^
>>
>> ```
>>
>> So, just swap the number of members and size arguments to match the
>> prototype, as
>> we're initialising 1 element of size `size`. GCC then sees we're not
>> doing anything wrong.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sam James <s...@gentoo.org>
>
> The short answer,
>
> Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com>
>
> but please read on.
>
>> ---
>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
>> index 683fd8d3151c..45b9d9e34b8b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
>> @@ -1678,7 +1678,7 @@ static int eb_copy_relocations(const struct
>> i915_execbuffer *eb)
>> urelocs = u64_to_user_ptr(eb->exec[i].relocs_ptr);
>> size = nreloc * sizeof(*relocs);
>>
>> - relocs = kvmalloc_array(size, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + relocs = kvmalloc_array(1, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Based on the patch context, we should really be calling:
>
> kvmalloc_array(nreloc, sizeof(*relocs), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> and we'd get mul overflow checks too.
>
> However, the code below also needs size, unless it's refactored to
> operate on multiples of sizeof(*relocs) and it all gets a bit annoying.
>
> Maybe there's a better way, but for the short term the patch at hand is
> no worse than what we currently have, and it'll silence the warning, so
> let's go with this.
Thanks. I have been trying to port to kvmalloc_array where I can if it's
obvious/trivial, but I admit I didn't want to take it on when it'd
require any surrounding refactoring unless someone insisted.
>
>
>> if (!relocs) {
>> err = -ENOMEM;
>> goto err;
best,
sam
