On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 10:14:12AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> On 21. 08. 19 9:06, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > These structs have holes in them so we end up disclosing a few bytes of
> > uninitialized stack data.
> > 
> > drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c:305 xsdfec_get_status() warn: check that 
> > 'status' doesn't leak information (struct has a hole after 'activity')
> > drivers/misc/xilinx_sdfec.c:449 xsdfec_get_turbo() warn: check that 
> > 'turbo_params' doesn't leak information (struct has a hole after 'scale')
> 
> Who is generating these warnings? Is this any new GCC or different tool?
> I see that 3byte padding but never seen these warnings.

This is a Smatch check.

regards,
dan carpenter

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