Re: [PATCH] sh: machvec: Use char[] for section boundaries

Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-09-08T12:17:39Z

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 04:43:45PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> As done for other sections, define the extern as a character array,
> which relaxes many of the compiler-time object size checks, which would
> otherwise assume it's a single long. Solves the following build error:
>
> arch/sh/kernel/machvec.c: error: array subscript 'struct sh_machine_vector[0]' is partly outside array bounds of 'long int[1]' [-Werror=array-bounds]: => 105:33
>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
> Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2209050944290.964530@ramsan.of.borg/
> Fixes: 9655ad03af2d ("sh: Fixup machvec support.")
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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

Thanks
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Gustavo