linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] fs/qnx6: Fix building with GCC 15

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Message-ID: <20241115050358.GQ3387508@ZenIV>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:03:58 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To: Brahmajit Das <brahmajit.xyz@...il.com>
Cc: brauner@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] fs/qnx6: Fix building with GCC 15

On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 01:21:32AM +0530, Brahmajit Das wrote:
> qnx6_checkroot() had been using weirdly spelled initializer - it needed
> to initialize 3-element arrays of char and it used NUL-padded
> 3-character string literals (i.e. 4-element initializers, with
> completely pointless zeroes at the end).
> 
> That had been spotted by gcc-15[*]; prior to that gcc quietly dropped
> the 4th element of initializers.
> 
> However, none of that had been needed in the first place - all this
> array is used for is checking that the first directory entry in root
> directory is "." and the second - "..".  The check had been expressed as
> a loop, using that match_root[] array.  Since there is no chance that we
> ever want to extend that list of entries, the entire thing is much too
> fancy for its own good; what we need is just a couple of explicit
> memcmp() and that's it.
> 
> [*]: fs/qnx6/inode.c: In function ‘qnx6_checkroot’:
> fs/qnx6/inode.c:182:41: error: initializer-string for array of ‘char’ is too long [-Werror=unterminated-string-initialization]
>   182 |         static char match_root[2][3] = {".\0\0", "..\0"};
>       |                                         ^~~~~~~
> fs/qnx6/inode.c:182:50: error: initializer-string for array of ‘char’ is too long [-Werror=unterminated-string-initialization]
>   182 |         static char match_root[2][3] = {".\0\0", "..\0"};
>       |                                                  ^~~~~~
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brahmajit Das <brahmajit.xyz@...il.com>

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Sorry, hadn't realized it had fallen through the cracks.
Christian, usually you are handling vfs/vfs.git#vfs.misc; I can put
it there myself, if you prefer it that way...