Around Mon 05 Nov 2018 08:15:50 +0100 or thereabout, Clément Péron wrote: Hello Clément, > Le dim. 4 nov. 2018 à 12:29, Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt > <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : >> >> Using GCC 8.2.0 I see the following error. >> >> /usr/bin/gcc-8 -Wall -Werror -Wuninitialized -Wundef -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -Wp,-MMD,./.lsmmc.o.d,-MT,lsmmc.o -c lsmmc.c -o lsmmc.o >> In file included from /usr/include/string.h:494, >> from lsmmc.c:46: >> In function ‘strncpy’, >> inlined from ‘read_file’ at lsmmc.c:356:3: >> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string_fortified.h:106:10: error: ‘__builtin_strncpy’ accessing 4096 bytes at offsets 0 and 1 overlaps 4095 bytes at offset 1 [-Werror=restrict] >> return __builtin___strncpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos (__dest)); >> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors >> Makefile:36: recipe for target 'lsmmc.o' failed >> make: *** [lsmmc.o] Error 1 >> >> Hence replace the strncpy with memmove, since using strncpy on >> overlapping strings is not allowed. >> >> Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> lsmmc.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/lsmmc.c b/lsmmc.c >> index c4faa00..7637198 100644 >> --- a/lsmmc.c >> +++ b/lsmmc.c >> @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ char *read_file(char *name) >> line[strlen(line) - 1] = '\0'; >> >> while (isspace(line[0])) >> - strncpy(&line[0], &line[1], sizeof(line)); >> + memmove(&line[0], &line[1], sizeof(line) - 1); > > > Post the same patch a week ago : https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10654531/ > > Could you add your review ? That looks good by me, however I could not immediate figure out how to ack a patch in patchwork. I even tried creating an account. <snipp> -- mvh Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt