Meelis Roos writes:
> After upgrading my distro compiler to gcc-8.2, Linux fails to compile on
> 32-bit powerpc (tested with 4.17, 4.18 and v4.18-7873-gf91e654474d4).
Yeah I noticed this just yesterday.
> CC arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.o
> In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:9,
> from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
> from ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:44,
> from ./include/linux/rculist.h:11,
> from ./include/linux/pid.h:5,
> from ./include/linux/sched.h:14,
> from arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:19:
> In function ‘memcpy’,
> inlined from ‘user_regset_copyin’ at ./include/linux/regset.h:295:4,
> inlined from ‘vr_set’ at arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:619:9:
> ./include/linux/string.h:345:9: error: ‘__builtin_memcpy’ offset [-527, -529]
> is out of the bounds [0, 16] of object ‘vrsave’ with type ‘union ’
> [-Werror=array-bounds]
> return __builtin_memcpy(p, q, size);
> ^~~~
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c: In function ‘vr_set’:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:614:5: note: ‘vrsave’ declared here
>} vrsave;
> ^~
I couldn't actually work out how GCC has decided this is definitely
happening, possibly it just thinks it _could_ happen. I think it's
wrong, but admittedly the code is not easy to follow.
The patch below should fix the build error, but I haven't had time to
test it actually works at runtime:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 9667666eb18e..607273067d3f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -570,7 +570,8 @@ static int vr_get(struct task_struct *target, const struct
user_regset *regset,
vrsave.word = target->thread.vrsave;
ret = user_regset_copyout(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &vrsave,
- 33 * sizeof(vector128), -1);
+ 33 * sizeof(vector128),
+ 34 * sizeof(vector128));
}
return ret;
@@ -617,7 +618,8 @@ static int vr_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct
user_regset *regset,
vrsave.word = target->thread.vrsave;
ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, &vrsave,
-33 * sizeof(vector128), -1);
+33 * sizeof(vector128),
+34 * sizeof(vector128));
if (!ret)
target->thread.vrsave = vrsave.word;
}
cheers