[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/ptrace: Disable array-bounds warning with gcc8
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed May 9 00:40:35 AEST 2018
Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> writes:
> This masks the new gcc8 warning
>
> regset.h:270:4: error: 'memcpy' offset [-527, -529] is out
> of the bounds [0, 16] of object 'vrsave' with type 'union <anonymous>'
Why would we want to mask the warning rather than fix it?
cheers
> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> index 7ac5a68ad6b1..ab159a34704a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> #
>
> CFLAGS_ptrace.o += -DUTS_MACHINE='"$(UTS_MACHINE)"' $(call cc-disable-warning, attribute-alias)
> +CFLAGS_ptrace.o += $(call cc-disable-warning, array-bounds)
> CFLAGS_syscalls.o += $(call cc-disable-warning, attribute-alias)
>
> subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_PPC_WERROR) := -Werror
> --
> 2.17.0
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