[PATCH] xen/mcelog: Add __nonstring annotations for unterminated strings

[PATCH] xen/mcelog: Add __nonstring annotations for unterminated strings

[Kees Cook]

When a character array without a terminating NUL character has a static
initializer, GCC 15's -Wunterminated-string-initialization will only
warn if the array lacks the "nonstring" attribute[1]. Mark the arrays
with __nonstring to and correctly identify the char array as "not a C
string" and thereby eliminate the warning.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117178 [1]
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
---
 include/xen/interface/xen-mca.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/xen/interface/xen-mca.h b/include/xen/interface/xen-mca.h
index 464aa6b3a5f9..1c9afbe8cc26 100644
--- a/include/xen/interface/xen-mca.h
+++ b/include/xen/interface/xen-mca.h
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ struct xen_mce {
 #define XEN_MCE_LOG_LEN 32
 
 struct xen_mce_log {
-	char signature[12]; /* "MACHINECHECK" */
+	char signature[12] __nonstring; /* "MACHINECHECK" */
 	unsigned len;	    /* = XEN_MCE_LOG_LEN */
 	unsigned next;
 	unsigned flags;
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] xen/mcelog: Add __nonstring annotations for unterminated strings

[Jürgen Groß]

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On 10.03.25 23:22, Kees Cook wrote:
> When a character array without a terminating NUL character has a static
> initializer, GCC 15's -Wunterminated-string-initialization will only
> warn if the array lacks the "nonstring" attribute[1]. Mark the arrays
> with __nonstring to and correctly identify the char array as "not a C
> string" and thereby eliminate the warning.
> 
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117178 [1]
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen

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