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Message-Id: <20180920172301.21868-15-miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:23:00 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v5 14/15] Compiler Attributes: auxdisplay: panel: use __nonstring

Let gcc know these arrays are not meant to be NUL-terminated
by annotating them with the new __nonstring variable attribute;
and remove the comment since it conveys the same information.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
---
 drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c
index 3b25a643058c..21b9b2f2470a 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/panel.c
@@ -155,10 +155,9 @@ struct logical_input {
 			int release_data;
 		} std;
 		struct {	/* valid when type == INPUT_TYPE_KBD */
-			/* strings can be non null-terminated */
-			char press_str[sizeof(void *) + sizeof(int)];
-			char repeat_str[sizeof(void *) + sizeof(int)];
-			char release_str[sizeof(void *) + sizeof(int)];
+			char press_str[sizeof(void *) + sizeof(int)] __nonstring;
+			char repeat_str[sizeof(void *) + sizeof(int)] __nonstring;
+			char release_str[sizeof(void *) + sizeof(int)] __nonstring;
 		} kbd;
 	} u;
 };
-- 
2.17.1