Re: Kconfig warnings with GCC 8.1.0

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hi.


2018-05-31 13:18 GMT+09:00 Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> My apologies if this has already been reported in some capacity, I
> searched the mailing list and patchwork but I didn't see anything.


I think you are the first reporter.


> With GCC 8.1.0, I am starting to see the following warnings from
> Kconfig:
>
>   CC    scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
>   LEX     scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
> In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2496:
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function âconf_writeâ:
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:748:22: warning: â%sâ directive writing likely 7 or more bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4097 [-Wformat-overflow=]
>   sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
>                       ^~
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:748:19: note: assuming directive output of 7 bytes
>   sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
>                    ^~~~~~
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:748:2: note: âsprintfâ output 1 or more bytes (assuming 4104) into a destination of size 4097
>   sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
>   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:751:23: warning: â.tmpconfig.â directive writing 11 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4097 [-Wformat-overflow=]
>    sprintf(tmpname, "%s.tmpconfig.%d", dirname, (int)getpid());
>                        ^~~~~~~~~~~
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:751:3: note: âsprintfâ output between 13 and 4119 bytes into a destination of size 4097
>    sprintf(tmpname, "%s.tmpconfig.%d", dirname, (int)getpid());
>    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
>   HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
>
> I am not sure if this is a false positive or not, otherwise I would have
> sent a patch. I tested on the latest linux-next with Masahiro's for-next
> branch, currently at commit 57282f7da50c ("Merge branch 'kconfig' into
> for-next").


I think these are legitimate warnings.

A patch is welcome.



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada