On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:22:24 +0900 (JST), Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I got this error when running sparse on mips kernel with gcc 4.3:
>
> builtin:272:1: warning: Newline in string or character constant
>
> The linux-mips kernel uses '$(CC) -dM -E' to generates arguments for
> sparse. With gcc 4.3, it generates lot of '-D' options and causes
> pre_buffer overflow. The linux-mips kernel can filter unused symbols
> out to avoid overflow, but sparse should be fixed anyway.
>
> This patch make pre_buffer dynamically increasable and add extra
> checking for overflow instead of silently truncating.
>
> Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ping?
> ---
> diff --git a/lib.c b/lib.c
> index 0abcc9a..6e8d09b 100644
> --- a/lib.c
> +++ b/lib.c
> @@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ void die(const char *fmt, ...)
> }
>
> static unsigned int pre_buffer_size;
> -static char pre_buffer[8192];
> +static unsigned int pre_buffer_alloc_size;
> +static char *pre_buffer;
>
> int Waddress_space = 1;
> int Wbitwise = 0;
> @@ -232,12 +233,20 @@ void add_pre_buffer(const char *fmt, ...)
> unsigned int size;
>
> va_start(args, fmt);
> + if (pre_buffer_alloc_size < pre_buffer_size + getpagesize()) {
> + pre_buffer_alloc_size += getpagesize();
> + pre_buffer = realloc(pre_buffer, pre_buffer_alloc_size);
> + if (!pre_buffer)
> + die("Unable to allocate more pre_buffer space");
> + }
> size = pre_buffer_size;
> size += vsnprintf(pre_buffer + size,
> - sizeof(pre_buffer) - size,
> + pre_buffer_alloc_size - size,
> fmt, args);
> pre_buffer_size = size;
> va_end(args);
> + if (pre_buffer_size >= pre_buffer_alloc_size - 1)
> + die("pre_buffer overflow");
> }
>
> static char **handle_switch_D(char *arg, char **next)
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