linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] treewide: address gcc-11 -Wstringop-overread warnings

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Message-Id: <161768454091.32082.3141021591391350544.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue,  6 Apr 2021 00:53:17 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Martin Sebor <msebor@....gnu.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, tboot-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        ath11k@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Anders Larsen <al@...rsen.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>,
        Simon Kelley <simon@...kelleys.org.uk>,
        Ning Sun <ning.sun@...el.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        James Smart <james.smart@...adcom.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] treewide: address gcc-11 -Wstringop-overread warnings

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:02:38 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> The coming gcc release introduces a new warning for string operations
> reading beyond the end of a fixed-length object. After testing
> randconfig kernels for a while, think I have patches for any such
> warnings that came up on x86, arm and arm64.
> 
> Most of these warnings are false-positive ones, either gcc warning
> about something that is entirely correct, or about something that
> looks suspicious but turns out to be correct after all.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.13/scsi-queue, thanks!

[09/11] scsi: lpfc: fix gcc -Wstringop-overread warning
        https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/ada48ba70f6b

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering