cgroup: Avoid -Wstringop-overflow warnings

Change the notation from pointer-to-array to pointer-to-pointer.
With this, we avoid the compiler complaining about trying
to access a region of size zero as an argument during function
calls.

This is a workaround to prevent the compiler complaining about
accessing an array of size zero when evaluating the arguments
of a couple of function calls. See below:

kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c: In function 'find_css_set':
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1206:16: warning: 'find_existing_css_set' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
 1206 |         cset = find_existing_css_set(old_cset, cgrp, template);
      |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1206:16: note: referencing argument 3 of type 'struct cgroup_subsys_state *[0]'
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1071:24: note: in a call to function 'find_existing_css_set'
 1071 | static struct css_set *find_existing_css_set(struct css_set *old_cset,
      |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

With the change to pointer-to-pointer, the functions are not prevented
from being executed, and they will do what they have to do when
CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT == 0.

Address the following -Wstringop-overflow warnings seen when
built with ARM architecture and aspeed_g4_defconfig configuration
(notice that under this configuration CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT == 0):

kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1208:16: warning: 'find_existing_css_set' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1258:15: warning: 'css_set_hash' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:6089:18: warning: 'css_set_hash' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:6153:18: warning: 'css_set_hash' accessing 4 bytes in a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]

This results in no differences in binary output.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/316
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 85e723a..2604db9 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ static void css_set_move_task(struct task_struct *task,
 #define CSS_SET_HASH_BITS      7
 static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(css_set_table, CSS_SET_HASH_BITS);
 
-static unsigned long css_set_hash(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css[])
+static unsigned long css_set_hash(struct cgroup_subsys_state **css)
 {
        unsigned long key = 0UL;
        struct cgroup_subsys *ss;
@@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ static bool compare_css_sets(struct css_set *cset,
  */
 static struct css_set *find_existing_css_set(struct css_set *old_cset,
                                        struct cgroup *cgrp,
-                                       struct cgroup_subsys_state *template[])
+                                       struct cgroup_subsys_state **template)
 {
        struct cgroup_root *root = cgrp->root;
        struct cgroup_subsys *ss;