mainline build failure due to 281d0c962752 ("fortify: Add Clang support")

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Wed Jun 22 2022 - 06:23:57 EST


Hi All,

I have recently (since yesterday) started building the mainline kernel
with clang-14 and I am seeing a build failure with allmodconfig.

In file included from drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_devlink.c:15:
In file included from ./include/linux/netlink.h:7:
In file included from ./include/linux/skbuff.h:15:
In file included from ./include/linux/time.h:60:
In file included from ./include/linux/time32.h:13:
In file included from ./include/linux/timex.h:67:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h:5:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:22:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:11:
In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:5:
In file included from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12:
In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:11:
In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:253:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:344:4: error: call to __write_overflow_field declared with 'warning' attribute: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror,-Wattribute-warning]
__write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);

After a bisect it pointed to 281d0c962752 ("fortify: Add Clang support").
Since it was introduced in v5.18, not sure if its already reported before.


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Regards
Sudip