[PATCH] perf, ui: Eliminate stack-smashing protection compilercomplain

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sat Nov 06 2010 - 04:48:40 EST


The gcc complains on Yes, No being allocated from stack space. Make
them conts to feel compiler happy.

| CC util/ui/util.o
| cc1: warnings being treated as errors
| util/ui/util.c: In function âui__dialog_yesnoâ:
| util/ui/util.c:108: error: not protecting function: no buffer at least 8 bytes long
| make: *** [util/ui/util.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: FrÃdÃric Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---

Since it seems only me who has such error I presume ssp-buffer-size=8 set
for mine local version of gcc (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4))

tools/perf/util/ui/util.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/tools/perf/util/ui/util.c
=====================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/tools/perf/util/ui/util.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/tools/perf/util/ui/util.c
@@ -104,9 +104,10 @@ out_destroy_form:
return rc;
}

+static const char yes[] = "Yes", no[] = "No";
+
bool ui__dialog_yesno(const char *msg)
{
/* newtWinChoice should really be accepting const char pointers... */
- char yes[] = "Yes", no[] = "No";
- return newtWinChoice(NULL, yes, no, (char *)msg) == 1;
+ return newtWinChoice(NULL, (char *)yes, (char *)no, (char *)msg) == 1;
}
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