While building the powerpc code using gcc 13.x, I came across following
errors generated for kernel/padata.c file:
CC kernel/padata.o
In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:390,
from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h:16,
from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/current.h:13,
from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:23,
from ./include/asm-generic/preempt.h:5,
from ./arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/preempt.h:1,
from ./include/linux/preempt.h:79,
from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:56,
from ./include/linux/swait.h:7,
from ./include/linux/completion.h:12,
from kernel/padata.c:14:
In function ‘bitmap_copy’,
inlined from ‘cpumask_copy’ at ./include/linux/cpumask.h:839:2,
inlined from ‘__padata_set_cpumasks’ at kernel/padata.c:730:2:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:114:33: error: ‘__builtin_memcpy’ reading between 257 and 536870904 bytes from a region of size 256 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
114 | #define __underlying_memcpy __builtin_memcpy
| ^
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:633:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘__underlying_memcpy’
633 | __underlying_##op(p, q, __fortify_size); \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:678:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘__fortify_memcpy_chk’
678 | #define memcpy(p, q, s) __fortify_memcpy_chk(p, q, s, \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/bitmap.h:259:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘memcpy’
259 | memcpy(dst, src, len);
| ^~~~~~
kernel/padata.c: In function ‘__padata_set_cpumasks’:
kernel/padata.c:713:48: note: source object ‘pcpumask’ of size [0, 256]
713 | cpumask_var_t pcpumask,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
In function ‘bitmap_copy’,
inlined from ‘cpumask_copy’ at ./include/linux/cpumask.h:839:2,
inlined from ‘__padata_set_cpumasks’ at kernel/padata.c:730:2:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:114:33: error: ‘__builtin_memcpy’ reading between 257 and 536870904 bytes from a region of size 256 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
114 | #define __underlying_memcpy __builtin_memcpy
| ^
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:633:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘__underlying_memcpy’
633 | __underlying_##op(p, q, __fortify_size); \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:678:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘__fortify_memcpy_chk’
678 | #define memcpy(p, q, s) __fortify_memcpy_chk(p, q, s, \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/bitmap.h:259:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘memcpy’
259 | memcpy(dst, src, len);
| ^~~~~~
kernel/padata.c: In function ‘__padata_set_cpumasks’:
kernel/padata.c:713:48: note: source object ‘pcpumask’ of size [0, 256]
713 | cpumask_var_t pcpumask,
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
The above error appears to be false-positive:
