Build regressions/improvements in v6.8-rc2

[Sam James]

Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de> writes:

> On 1/29/24 15:58, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 1/29/24 03:06, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>>> parisc-gcc1[23]/parisc-{allmod,def}config
>>>
>>>    + /kisskb/src/drivers/hwmon/pc87360.c: error: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]:  => 383:51
>>>
>>
>> The "fix" for this problem would be similar to commit 4265eb062a73 ("hwmon: (pc87360)
>> Bounds check data->innr usage"). The change would be something like
>>
>> -               for (i = 0; i < data->tempnr; i++) {
>> +               for (i = 0; i < min(data->tempnr, ARRAY_SIZE(data->temp_max)); i++) {
>>
>> but that would be purely random because the loop accesses several arrays
>> indexed with i, and tempnr is never >= ARRAY_SIZE(data->temp_max).
>> I kind of resist making such changes to the code just because the compiler
>> is clueless.
>
> I agree with your analysis.
> But I'm wondering why this warning just seem to appear on parisc.
> I would expect gcc on other platforms to complain as well ?!?

-Wstringop-overflow and -Wstringop-truncation are known noisy warnings
because they're implemented in GCC's "middle-end". Whether or not they
fire depends on other optimisations.

See also https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/CAHk-=wjG4jdE19-vWWhAX3ByfbNr4DJS-pwiN9oY38WkhMZ57g@mail.gmail.com/.

>
> Helge
>
>> Are we sprinkling the kernel code with code like this to make the compiler happy ?
>>
>> Guenter
>>
>>

thanks,
sam