This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6 sit: work around bogus gcc-8 -Wrestrict warning
to the 4.4-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:
ipv6-sit-work-around-bogus-gcc-8-wrestrict-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 Thu Mar 8 10:22:29 PST 2018
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:55:34 +0100
Subject: ipv6 sit: work around bogus gcc-8 -Wrestrict warning
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit ca79bec237f5809a7c3c59bd41cd0880aa889966 ]
gcc-8 has a new warning that detects overlapping input and output arguments
in memcpy(). It triggers for sit_init_net() calling ipip6_tunnel_clone_6rd(),
which is actually correct:
net/ipv6/sit.c: In function 'sit_init_net':
net/ipv6/sit.c:192:3: error: 'memcpy' source argument is the same as destination [-Werror=restrict]
The problem here is that the logic detecting the memcpy() arguments finds them
to be the same, but the conditional that tests for the input and output of
ipip6_tunnel_clone_6rd() to be identical is not a compile-time constant.
We know that netdev_priv(t->dev) is the same as t for a tunnel device,
and comparing "dev" directly here lets the compiler figure out as well
that 'dev == sitn->fb_tunnel_dev' when called from sit_init_net(), so
it no longer warns.
This code is old, so Cc stable to make sure that we don't get the warning
for older kernels built with new gcc.
Cc: Martin Sebor <msebor@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83456
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/sit.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/sit.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static void ipip6_tunnel_clone_6rd(struc
#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_SIT_6RD
struct ip_tunnel *t = netdev_priv(dev);
- if (t->dev == sitn->fb_tunnel_dev) {
+ if (dev == sitn->fb_tunnel_dev) {
ipv6_addr_set(&t->ip6rd.prefix, htonl(0x20020000), 0, 0, 0);
t->ip6rd.relay_prefix = 0;
t->ip6rd.prefixlen = 16;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ipv6-sit-work-around-bogus-gcc-8-wrestrict-warning.patch