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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Horia Geantă" <horia.geanta@nxp.com>,
	"Pankaj Gupta" <pankaj.gupta@nxp.com>,
	"Gaurav Jain" <gaurav.jain@nxp.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, "kernel test robot" <lkp@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto/caam: Avoid GCC constprop bug warning
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 17:03:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2TVXDfQUwlYFv9S@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221028210527.never.934-kees@kernel.org>

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:05:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static inline void append_data(u32 * const desc, const void *data, int len)
>  {
>  	u32 *offset = desc_end(desc);
>  
> -	if (len) /* avoid sparse warning: memcpy with byte count of 0 */
> +	if (data && len) /* avoid sparse warning: memcpy with byte count of 0 */
>  		memcpy(offset, data, len);

How about just killing the if clause altogether? I don't see
any sparse warnings without it.  What am I missing?

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-04  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-28 21:05 Kees Cook
2022-10-29 11:40 ` David Laight
2022-11-04  9:03 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2022-12-01 11:52   ` Anders Roxell
2022-12-01 12:10     ` Herbert Xu
2022-12-02  0:59       ` Anders Roxell
2022-12-02  0:58 ` Anders Roxell
2022-12-02 10:01   ` David Laight
2022-12-02 18:58     ` Kees Cook
2022-12-02 22:08       ` David Laight

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