This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sparc: Fix -Wstringop-overflow warning
to the 4.9-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-fix-wstringop-overflow-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed May 31 16:49:17 JST 2017
From: Orlando Arias <oarias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 15:34:00 -0400
Subject: sparc: Fix -Wstringop-overflow warning
From: Orlando Arias <oarias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit deba804c90642c8ed0f15ac1083663976d578f54 ]
Greetings,
GCC 7 introduced the -Wstringop-overflow flag to detect buffer overflows
in calls to string handling functions [1][2]. Due to the way
``empty_zero_page'' is declared in arch/sparc/include/setup.h, this
causes a warning to trigger at compile time in the function mem_init(),
which is subsequently converted to an error. The ensuing patch fixes
this issue and aligns the declaration of empty_zero_page to that of
other architectures. Thank you.
Cheers,
Orlando.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-10/msg02308.html
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html
Signed-off-by: Orlando Arias <oarias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_32.h | 4 ++--
arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h | 2 +-
arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_32.h
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ extern unsigned long pfn_base;
* ZERO_PAGE is a global shared page that is always zero: used
* for zero-mapped memory areas etc..
*/
-extern unsigned long empty_zero_page;
+extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)];
-#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) (virt_to_page(&empty_zero_page))
+#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) (virt_to_page(empty_zero_page))
/*
* In general all page table modifications should use the V8 atomic
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ extern char reboot_command[];
*/
extern unsigned char boot_cpu_id;
-extern unsigned long empty_zero_page;
+extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)];
extern int serial_console;
static inline int con_is_present(void)
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
/* Saves us work later. */
- memset((void *)&empty_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
+ memset((void *)empty_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
i = last_valid_pfn >> ((20 - PAGE_SHIFT) + 5);
i += 1;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oarias@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/sparc-fix-wstringop-overflow-warning.patch