linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: fix memcpy size when copying stack entries

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Message-ID: <20230712101434.4613b3ec@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:14:34 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: fix memcpy size when copying stack entries

On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:06:27 +0200
Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:

> > No, still getting the same warning:
> >
> > [    2.302776] memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 104) of single field "stack" at kernel/trace/trace.c:3178 (size 64)  
> 
> BTW, i'm seeing the same error on x86 with current master when
> CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=y and CONFIG_SCHED_TRACER=y:

As I don't know how the fortifier works, nor what exactly it is checking,
do you have any idea on how to quiet it?

This is a false positive, as I described before.

-- Steve