On 2018/12/4 下午7:10, David Sterba wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:54:19PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>> From: Su Yanjun <suyj.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> When using gcc8 compiles utils.c, it complains as below:
>>
>> utils.c:852:45: warning: '%s' directive output may be truncated writing
>> up to 4095 bytes into a region of size 4084 [-Wformat-truncation=]
>>    snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/dev/mapper/%s", name);
>>                                              ^~   ~~~~
>> In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:873,
>>                  from utils.c:20:
>> /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:67:10: note: '__builtin___snprintf_chk'
>> output between 13 and 4108 bytes into a destination of size 4096
>>    return __builtin___snprintf_chk (__s, __n, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1,
>>           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>         __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ());
>>         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> This isn't a type of warning we care about, particularly when PATH_MAX
>> is much less than either.
>>
>> Using the GCC option -Wno-format-truncation to disable this for default
>> build.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Su Yanjun <suyj.f...@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> [Use cc-disable-warning to fix the not working CFLAGS setting in 
>> configure.ac]
>> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <w...@suse.com>
>> ---
>>  Makefile           | 1 +
>>  Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index f4ab14ea74c8..252299f8869f 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ CSCOPE_CMD := cscope -u -b -c -q
>>  include Makefile.extrawarn
>>  
>>  EXTRA_CFLAGS :=
>> +EXTRA_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-truncation)
> 
> Please don't touch EXTRA_CFLAGS, this is for users who want to override
> any defaults that are set by build. This should go to CFLAGS.
> 
>>  EXTRA_LDFLAGS :=
>>  
>>  DEBUG_CFLAGS_DEFAULT = -O0 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -ggdb3
>> diff --git a/Makefile.extrawarn b/Makefile.extrawarn
>> index 5849036fd166..bbb2d5173846 100644
>> --- a/Makefile.extrawarn
>> +++ b/Makefile.extrawarn
>> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ warning-1 += -Wold-style-definition
>>  warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wmissing-include-dirs)
>>  warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
>>  warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, missing-field-initializers)
>> +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-truncation)
> 
> It's ok to disable for W=1 but eg. the W=3 level could take all
> previously disabled warnings.

Any guide on the warning disabling?

IMHO the format-truncation used in any snprintf()-like functions are
really more or less expected, just like missing-field-initializers.

THanks,
Qu

> 
>>  
>>  warning-2 := -Waggregate-return
>>  warning-2 += -Wcast-align
>> -- 
>> 2.19.1

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