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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix build with gcc 8.1
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:39:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90559d85-5fc2-8f77-3b2f-676c9d0b664a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180619163536.2da8e683@xeon-e3>

On 6/20/2018 12:35 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:08:55 +0100
> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Error observed when CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD_ETHTOOL config option is
>> enabled.
>>
>> build error:
>> In function ‘strncpy’,
>>     inlined from ‘igb_get_drvinfo’ at
>>     .../dpdk/build/build/kernel/linux/kni/igb_ethtool.c:814:2:
>>     .../include/linux/string.h:246:9: error: ‘__builtin_strncpy’ output
>>     may be truncated copying 31 bytes from a string of length 42
>>     [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
>>       return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
>>                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Fixed by reducing the adapter->fw_version size and adjusting strncpy
>> limit size.
>>
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>> ---
>>  kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb.h         | 2 +-
>>  kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_ethtool.c | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb.h b/kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb.h
>> index 8aa2a3088..5e798ae83 100644
>> --- a/kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb.h
>> +++ b/kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb.h
>> @@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ struct igb_adapter {
>>  	int int_mode;
>>  	u32 rss_queues;
>>  	u32 vmdq_pools;
>> -	char fw_version[43];
>> +	char fw_version[32];
> 
> Use ETHTOOL_FWVERS_LEN?

Yes, that is what drvinfo->fw_version uses, and it seems it has been around
enough to not cause any build issue, will use that one.

> 
>>  	u32 wvbr;
>>  	struct igb_mac_addr *mac_table;
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_IGB_VMDQ_NETDEV
>> diff --git a/kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_ethtool.c b/kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_ethtool.c
>> index 064528bcf..0b8b25ff1 100644
>> --- a/kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_ethtool.c
>> +++ b/kernel/linux/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_ethtool.c
>> @@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ static void igb_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *netdev,
>>  	strncpy(drvinfo->version, igb_driver_version, sizeof(drvinfo->version) - 1);
>>  
>>  	strncpy(drvinfo->fw_version, adapter->fw_version,
>> -		sizeof(drvinfo->fw_version) - 1);
>> +		sizeof(drvinfo->fw_version));
> 
> Why not:
> 	strlcpy(drvinfo->fw_version, adapter->fw_version,
> 		sizeof(drvinfo->fw_version));

Just to be cautious about changing API, to not have any problem with older
version of kernels.
But it seems strlcpy supported long enough to not cause an issue, I will use it.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-20 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-19 12:08 Ferruh Yigit
2018-06-19 23:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-06-20 16:39   ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2018-06-20 17:04     ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-06-20  9:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2018-06-20 16:40   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-06-26  9:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-06-26  9:54   ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon
2018-06-26 11:38   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ferruh Yigit
2018-06-26 13:43     ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2018-06-27 13:15       ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon

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