Re: [PATCH] perf tests: Fix compile failure on do_sort_something

From: David Ahern
Date: Thu Aug 08 2013 - 23:10:08 EST


On 8/8/13 1:58 AM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
On 08/08/13 00:59, David Ahern wrote:
Commit b55ae0a9 added code-reading.c which fails to compile on Fedora 16
with compiler version:
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2)

Failure message is:

tests/code-reading.c: In function âdo_sort_somethingâ:
tests/code-reading.c:305:13: error: stack protector not protecting local variables: variable length buffer [-Werror=stack-protector]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [/tmp/junk/tests/code-reading.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c b/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c
index 8e0943b..4bde8be 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c
@@ -304,15 +304,14 @@ static int comp(const void *a, const void *b)

static void do_sort_something(void)
{
- size_t sz = 40960;
- int buf[sz], i;
+ int buf[40960], i;

- for (i = 0; i < (int)sz; i++)
- buf[i] = sz - i - 1;
+ for (i = 0; i < (int)sizeof(buf); i++)


Should that be ARRAY_SIZE not sizeof

oops, yes it should.

David
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