This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sparc-avoid-stringop-overread-errors.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bd1cca633bd4949d4f953cb8a2109461071b4e43 Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 6 16:06:04 2021 -0700 sparc: avoid stringop-overread errors [ Upstream commit fc7c028dcdbfe981bca75d2a7b95f363eb691ef3 ] The sparc mdesc code does pointer games with 'struct mdesc_hdr', but didn't describe to the compiler how that header is then followed by the data that the header describes. As a result, gcc is now unhappy since it does stricter pointer range tracking, and doesn't understand about how these things work. This results in various errors like: arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function ‘mdesc_node_by_name’: arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:647:22: error: ‘strcmp’ reading 1 or more bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread] 647 | if (!strcmp(names + ep[ret].name_offset, name)) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ which are easily avoided by just describing 'struct mdesc_hdr' better, and making the node_block() helper function look into that unsized data[] that follows the header. This makes the sparc64 build happy again at least for my cross-compiler version (gcc version 11.2.1). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi4NW3NC0xWykkw=6LnjQD6D_rtRtxY9g8gQAJXtQMi8A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c index 8e645ddac58e..30f171b7b00c 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct mdesc_hdr { u32 node_sz; /* node block size */ u32 name_sz; /* name block size */ u32 data_sz; /* data block size */ + char data[]; } __attribute__((aligned(16))); struct mdesc_elem { @@ -612,7 +613,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdesc_get_node_info); static struct mdesc_elem *node_block(struct mdesc_hdr *mdesc) { - return (struct mdesc_elem *) (mdesc + 1); + return (struct mdesc_elem *) mdesc->data; } static void *name_block(struct mdesc_hdr *mdesc)