linux-kernel - Re: GCC bug ? Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] powerpc/32s: Implement Kernel Userspace Access Protection

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:18:54 -0600
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, ruscur@...sell.cc,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: GCC bug ? Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] powerpc/32s: Implement Kernel Userspace Access Protection

Hi!

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 07:57:15AM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> GCC doc also says:
> 
> "if you use it in an inlined function and pass an argument of the 
> function as the argument to the built-in, GCC never returns 1 when you 
> call the inline function with a string constant"
> 
> Does GCC considers (void*)0 as a string constant ?

No, because it isn't (it's a pointer, not an array of characters).


Segher