On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 03:15:35PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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> Le 27/02/2025 à 15:05, Michael Kelley a écrit :
> > From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> Sent: Thursday,
> > February 27, 2025 2:43 AM
> > >
> > > Le 27/02/2025 à 02:38, Stephen Rothwell a écrit :
> > > > Hi Venkat,
> > > >
> > > > CC Kees Cook for advice. This is a result of the tests added in commit
> > > >
> > > > bbeb38b8487a ("string.h: Validate memtostr*()/strtomem*() arguments
> > > > more carefully")
> > > >
> > > > from the kspp tree.
> > > >
> > > > I note that the comment about memtostr() says "Copy a possibly
> > > > non-NUL-term string".
> > >
> > > Can you tell more about your config and your environment ?
> > >
> > > I just tested with ppc64_defconfig and ppc64le_defconfig, with gcc 12.4,
> > > gcc 13.2 and gcc 14.2 and didn't get that build error.
> > >
> > > Christophe
> >
> > FWIW, I see the same build failures related to __must_be_noncstr()
> > when building natively on x86 and on arm64. In both cases, it's an
> > Ubuntu 20.04 installation with gcc 9.4.0 and binutils 2.34.
> >
>
> Looks like I get that problem only with GCC 8.5 and GCC 9.5.
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> I don't get it with gcc 10.3 nor 11.3 nor 12.4 nor 13.2 nor 14.2
> I don't get it either with gcc 5.5 or 7.5
I will investigate! Sorry for the trouble.
--
Kees Cook
