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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] vsprintf: Fix potential unaligned access
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:10:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yd1XlN0e23GRF9i6@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YdyvXq8D2jsiM47E@paasikivi.fi.intel.com>

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:12:46AM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 10:50:49PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > The %p4cc specifier in some cases might get an unaligned pointer.
> > Due to this we need to make copy to local variable once to avoid
> > potential crashes on some architectures due to improper access.
> 
> I guess this problem exists virtually everywhere where pointers are being
> handled: the pointer could be unaligned.

True. And my patch improves the situation.
See, for example, 0f70fe605fad ("hexdump: fix for non-aligned buffers").

> Does this even address the false
> positive compiler warning?

First of all, the warning is real and legit, it's not false positive.
Second, no, this is another side of the fix.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-11 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-10 20:50 Andy Shevchenko
2022-01-10 22:12 ` Sakari Ailus
2022-01-11 10:10   ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2022-01-11 10:54     ` Sakari Ailus
2022-01-11 11:22       ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-01-11 14:13         ` Sakari Ailus
2022-01-11 14:18           ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-01-11 14:57 ` Petr Mladek
2022-01-11 15:09   ` Andy Shevchenko

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