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security: commoncap: fix -Wstringop-overread warning
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gcc-11 introdces a harmless warning for cap_inode_getsecurity:

security/commoncap.c: In function ‘cap_inode_getsecurity’:
security/commoncap.c:440:33: error: ‘memcpy’ reading 16 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
  440 |                                 memcpy(&nscap->data, &cap->data, sizeof(__le32) * 2 * VFS_CAP_U32);
      |                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The problem here is that tmpbuf is initialized to NULL, so gcc assumes
it is not accessible unless it gets set by vfs_getxattr_alloc().  This is
a legitimate warning as far as I can tell, but the code is correct since
it correctly handles the error when that function fails.

Add a separate NULL check to tell gcc about it as well.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored and James Morris committed Mar 24, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
&tmpbuf, size, GFP_NOFS);
dput(dentry);

if (ret < 0)
if (ret < 0 || !tmpbuf)
return ret;

fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
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