Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the kspp-gustavo tree

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Nov 21 2023 - 23:06:43 EST




On 11/21/23 21:48, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
Hi all,

After merging the kspp-gustavo tree, today's linux-next build (sparc64
defconfig) produced these warnings:


[..]

mm/mempolicy.c:2890:26: note: destination object 'str' of size [0, 9223372036854775807]
mm/mempolicy.c:2890:26: note: destination object 'str' of size [0, 9223372036854775807]
mm/mempolicy.c:3007:26: warning: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
3007 | *--flags = '=';
| ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~
mm/mempolicy.c:2890:26: note: destination object 'str' of size [0, 9223372036854775807]
2890 | int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol)
| ~~~~~~^~~

This is using gcc v11.1.0


This doesn't show up with more recent compilers because it was an issue in GCC.

--
Gustavo