stringop-overflow warns when it sees a possible overflow in a string operation.
In the rte_memcpy functions different implementations are used depending on the size. stringop-overflow is raised for the paths in the function where it sees the static size of the src could be overflowed. However, in reality a correct size argument and in some cases dynamic allocation would ensure that this does not happen. Disable this warning at the top level as it is being raised on several components. For example, in the case below for key, the correct path will be chosen in rte_memcpy_generic at runtime based on the size argument but as some paths in the function could lead to a cast to 32 bytes a warning is raised. In function ‘_mm256_storeu_si256’, inlined from ‘rte_memcpy_generic’ at ../lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_memcpy.h:315:2, inlined from ‘iavf_configure_rss_key’ at ../lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_memcpy.h:869:10: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/include/avxintrin.h:928:8: warning: writing 32 bytes into a region of size 1 [-Wstringop-overflow=] 928 | *__P = __A; | ~~~~~^~~~~ In file included from ../drivers/net/iavf/../../common/iavf/iavf_prototype.h:10, from ../drivers/net/iavf/iavf.h:9, from ../drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c:22: ../drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c: In function ‘iavf_configure_rss_key’: ../drivers/net/iavf/../../common/iavf/virtchnl.h:508:5: note: at offset 0 to object ‘key’ with size 1 declared here 508 | u8 key[1]; /* RSS hash key, packed bytes */ | ^~~ Bugzilla ID: 394 Bugzilla ID: 421 Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com> --- config/meson.build | 3 ++- mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build index 58421342b..476a667a9 100644 --- a/config/meson.build +++ b/config/meson.build @@ -200,5 +200,6 @@ warning_flags = [ '-Wno-address-of-packed-member', '-Wno-packed-not-aligned', - '-Wno-missing-field-initializers' + '-Wno-missing-field-initializers', + '-Wno-stringop-overflow' ] if not dpdk_conf.get('RTE_ARCH_64') diff --git a/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk b/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk index f19305e49..fe4b8c705 100644 --- a/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk +++ b/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk @@ -101,4 +101,7 @@ endif WERROR_FLAGS += -Wno-address-of-packed-member +# disable stringop-overflow warnings +WERROR_FLAGS += -Wno-stringop-overflow + export CC AS AR LD OBJCOPY OBJDUMP STRIP READELF export TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS TOOLCHAIN_LDFLAGS TOOLCHAIN_ASFLAGS -- 2.21.1