hello building 2.3.2 fails with: mountd.c:706:3: note: 'sprintf' output between 6 and 16 bytes into a destination of size 10 sprintf(tag, "vers%d", vers); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors and nfsd.c:102:3: note: 'sprintf' output between 6 and 16 bytes into a destination of size 10 sprintf(tag, "vers%d", i); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors I guess the reason is (https://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=152718306728854&w=2): * Most compile warnings are now fatal errors. and (configure): checking whether CC supports -Werror=format-overflow=2... yes This fixes everything for me: diff -c utils/mountd/mountd.c.FIX_VAR_DIM utils/mountd/mountd.c *** utils/mountd/mountd.c.FIX_VAR_DIM Sun May 27 18:16:46 2018 --- utils/mountd/mountd.c Sun May 27 18:16:46 2018 *************** *** 702,708 **** else NFSCTL_TCPUNSET(_rpcprotobits); for (vers = 2; vers <= 4; vers++) { ! char tag[10]; sprintf(tag, "vers%d", vers); if (conf_get_bool("nfsd", tag, NFSCTL_VERISSET(nfs_version, vers))) NFSCTL_VERSET(nfs_version, vers); --- 702,708 ---- else NFSCTL_TCPUNSET(_rpcprotobits); for (vers = 2; vers <= 4; vers++) { ! char tag[20]; sprintf(tag, "vers%d", vers); if (conf_get_bool("nfsd", tag, NFSCTL_VERISSET(nfs_version, vers))) NFSCTL_VERSET(nfs_version, vers); diff -c utils/nfsd/nfsd.c.FIX_VAR_DIM utils/nfsd/nfsd.c *** utils/nfsd/nfsd.c.FIX_VAR_DIM Sun May 27 18:16:46 2018 --- utils/nfsd/nfsd.c Sun May 27 18:16:46 2018 *************** *** 98,104 **** else NFSCTL_TCPUNSET(protobits); for (i = 2; i <= 4; i++) { ! char tag[10]; sprintf(tag, "vers%d", i); if (conf_get_bool("nfsd", tag, NFSCTL_VERISSET(versbits, i))) NFSCTL_VERSET(versbits, i); --- 98,104 ---- else NFSCTL_TCPUNSET(protobits); for (i = 2; i <= 4; i++) { ! char tag[20]; sprintf(tag, "vers%d", i); if (conf_get_bool("nfsd", tag, NFSCTL_VERISSET(versbits, i))) NFSCTL_VERSET(versbits, i); I thought the maintainers might be interested in fixing upstream ciao gabriele -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html