Re: Linux 4.19 and GCC 9

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:21:51AM -0700, Ivan Babrou wrote:
> Looks like 4.19.49 received some patches for GCC 9+, but unfortunately
> perf still doesn't want to compile:
> 
> [07:15:32]In file included from /usr/include/string.h:635,
> [07:15:32] from util/debug.h:7,
> [07:15:32] from builtin-help.c:15:
> [07:15:32]In function 'strncpy',
> [07:15:32] inlined from 'add_man_viewer' at builtin-help.c:192:2,
> [07:15:32] inlined from 'perf_help_config' at builtin-help.c:284:3:
> [07:15:32]/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:126:10: error:
> '__builtin_strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying as
> many bytes from a string as its length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> [07:15:32] 126 | return __builtin___strncpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len,
> __bos (__dest));
> [07:15:32] | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> [07:15:32]builtin-help.c: In function 'perf_help_config':
> [07:15:32]builtin-help.c:187:15: note: length computed here
> [07:15:32] 187 | size_t len = strlen(name);
> [07:15:32] | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> [07:15:32]cc1: all warnings being treated as errors


Any chance in finding a patch in Linus's tree that resolves this?  I
don't have gcc9 on my systems here yet to test this.

thanks,

greg k-h