On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koski...@iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 09:19:17AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> gcc-6 correctly warns about a out of bounds access
>>
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:407:24: warning: index 32 denotes an offset
>> greater than size of 'u64[32][1] {aka long long unsigned int[32][1]}'
>> [-Warray-bounds]
>> offsetof(struct thread_fp_state, fpr[32][0]));
>> ^
>>
>> check the end of array instead of beginning of next element to fix this
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.k...@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
>> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org>
>
> This patch fixes PPC kernel build failure with GCC 6.1.
>
> Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koski...@iki.fi>
I question the usefulness of this BUG_BUILD_ON() to be honest, but I'd
like to see _a_ fix go in for it for 4.7-rc3 or so to fix the GCC 6.1
build breakage.
So, consider that an:
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <o...@lixom.net>
-Olof
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