linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Wed Jan 04 2023 - 21:25:45 EST


Hi all,

After merging the kspp tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
allmodconfig) failed like this:

In file included from include/linux/string.h:253,
from include/linux/bitmap.h:11,
from include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
from arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:17,
from arch/x86/include/asm/cpuid.h:62,
from arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:19,
from arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:5,
from arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:53,
from include/linux/thread_info.h:60,
from arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:9,
from include/linux/preempt.h:78,
from include/linux/percpu.h:6,
from include/linux/prandom.h:13,
from include/linux/random.h:153,
from include/linux/net.h:18,
from net/rxrpc/output.c:10:
In function 'fortify_memcpy_chk',
inlined from 'rxrpc_fill_out_ack' at net/rxrpc/output.c:158:2:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:520:25: error: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning]
520 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Exposed by commit

f7cd05c76c70 ("fortify: Use __builtin_dynamic_object_size() when available")

I applied the following patch.

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 12:56:39 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] rxrpc: replace zero-lenth array with DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
index 18092526d3c8..c7186484fc5f 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
+++ b/net/rxrpc/ar-internal.h
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ struct rxrpc_txbuf {
u8 data[RXRPC_JUMBO_DATALEN]; /* Data packet */
struct {
struct rxrpc_ackpacket ack;
- u8 acks[0];
+ DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY(u8, acks);
};
};
} __aligned(64);
--
2.35.1

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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