Re: [PATCH] powerpc/lib: Avoid array bounds warnings in vec ops

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>]

>> To be honest I don't know how paranoid we want to get, we could end up
>> putting WARN's all over the kernel :)
>>
>> In this case I guess if the size is too large we overflow the buffer on
>> the kernel stack, so we should at least check the size.
>>
>> But does it need a WARN? I'm not sure. If we had a case that was passing
>> a out-of-bound size hopefully we would notice in testing? :)
> 
> You're right, a simpler check should suffice. I will send an updated
> patch.

This[1] patch indeed also makes those -Wstringop-overflow warnings go away. :)

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Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Build-tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>

Thank you guys!
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Gustavo

[1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2023-November/265936.html