On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 at 15:12, Coly Li <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 2025年4月17日 15:10，Kees Cook <[email protected]> 写道：
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> > On April 16, 2025 11:16:45 PM PDT, Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 at 00:01, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> GCC 15's new -Wunterminated-string-initialization notices that the 16
> >>> character lookup table "zero_uuid" (which is not used as a C-String)
> >>> needs to be marked as "nonstring":
> >>>
> >>> drivers/md/bcache/super.c: In function 'uuid_find_empty':
> >>> drivers/md/bcache/super.c:549:43: warning: initializer-string for array
> >>> of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring'
> >>> attribute (17 chars into 16 available)
> >>> [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
> >>> 549 | static const char zero_uuid[16] =
> >>> "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";
> >>> |
> >>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>>
> >>> Add the annotation to silence the GCC warning.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> >>> ---
> >>> Cc: Coly Li <[email protected]>
> >>> Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
> >>> Cc: [email protected]
> >>> ---
> >>> drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 +-
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> >>> index e42f1400cea9..577d048170fe 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
> >>> @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static struct uuid_entry *uuid_find(struct cache_set
> >>> *c, const char *uuid)
> >>>
> >>> static struct uuid_entry *uuid_find_empty(struct cache_set *c)
> >>> {
> >>> - static const char zero_uuid[16] =
> >>> "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";
> >>> + static const char zero_uuid[] __nonstring =
> >>> "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";
> >>>
> >>
> >> Just
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> >> static const char zero_uuid[16] = {};
> >>
> >> should work fine here too. No need for the initializer.
> >
> > 🤦 Yes. This is what I get for fixing dozens of these. I'll send a v2...
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> Can we do this,
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> static const char zero_uuid[16] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
> 0, 0};
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> I like the explicit array element number 16, and the explicit uuid content by
> obvious zero (‘0’) symbols. They provide redundant information.
> Not sure whether GCC 15 complains or not.
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Even the {} initializer is entirely redundant, given that the variable
has static linkage, and so C guarantees that it will be zero
initialized.
Could you use NULL_GUID and be done with it?
