Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sun, 19 Aug 2018 16:21:57 -0700 | Subject | Re: linux-next: build warnings from Linus' tree |
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 3:13 PM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote: > > Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) produced these > warnings: > > fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:605:3: warning: 'strncpy' writing 16 bytes into a region of size 1 overflows the destination [-Wstringop-overflow=] > strncpy(pSMB->DialectsArray+count, protocols[i].name, 16); > > Presumably caused by my update to gcc 8.2.0.
Yeah. There are some patches to mark some arrays as non-strings to get rid of these, but we'll see. Maybe we'll just disable the new gcc warning if it causes more pain than it is worth.
Linus
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