Re: [kees:for-next/hardening 6/14] mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c:1504:7: warning: argument to variable-length array may be too large due to conversion from 'int' to 'long unsigned int'

Re: [kees:for-next/hardening 6/14] mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c:1504:7: warning: argument to variable-length array may be too large due to conversion from 'int' to 'long unsigned int'

[Kees Cook]

On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 02:08:26PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git for-next/hardening
> head:   48b79238694db6e7eb3dd6153cf71107db624a11
> commit: 1ca6c23046d30abfe57d8706248ad5888aafa3bf [6/14] kbuild: Switch from -Wvla to -Wvla-larger-than=1
> :::::: branch date: 33 hours ago
> :::::: commit date: 9 days ago
> config: arm64-randconfig-002-20250502 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250507/202505071331.4iOzqmuE-lkp@intel.com/config)
> compiler: aarch64-linux-gcc (GCC) 8.5.0
> [...]
>    mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c: At top level:
>    cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option '-Wno-vla-larger-than'

Man, GCC 8 and this option is pretty broken. I've update the patch
again to just do option removal instead of traditional warning
disabling:

https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next/hardening&id=a81be1e542c0f35e171bc564d8b60785a12cff29

Thanks!

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Kees Cook