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

Gustavo A. R. Silva
2023-11-22T04:04:27Z

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