Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: lpfc: Avoid -Wstringop-overflow warning

[James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 15:30 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Avoid confusing the compiler about possible negative sizes.
> Use size_t instead of int for variables size and copied.
> 
> Address the following warning found with GCC-13:
> In function ‘lpfc_debugfs_ras_log_data’,
>     inlined from ‘lpfc_debugfs_ras_log_open’ at
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c:2271:15:
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c:2210:25: warning: ‘memcpy’ specified
> bound between 18446744071562067968 and 18446744073709551615 exceeds
> maximum object size 9223372036854775807 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
>  2210 |                         memcpy(buffer + copied, dmabuf->virt,
>       |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  2211 |                                size - copied - 1);
>       |                                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 

This looks like a compiler bug to me and your workaround would have us
using unsigned types everywhere for sizes, which seems wrong.  There
are calls which return size or error for which we have ssize_t and that
type has to be usable in things like memcpy, so the compiler must be
fixed or the warning disabled.

James