[PATCH] powerpc/powernv/idle: Fix build error

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Aug 14 14:09:01 AEST 2018


Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru> writes:
> On 10/08/2018 17:10, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Fix the below build error using strlcpy instead of strncpy
>>>
>>> In function 'pnv_parse_cpuidle_dt',
>>>     inlined from 'pnv_init_idle_states' at arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/idle.c:840:7,
>>>     inlined from '__machine_initcall_powernv_pnv_init_idle_states' at arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/idle.c:870:1:
>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/idle.c:820:3: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 16 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
>>>    strncpy(pnv_idle_states[i].name, temp_string[i],
>>>    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>     PNV_IDLE_NAME_LEN);
>> 
>> I'm curious why I haven't seen this? What compiler are you using?
>
> gcc 8 does this.

Yeah you're right. It was hidden by another build failure in my build
scripts :/

cheers


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