Re: linux-next: Tree for Aug 20 (Wno-alloc-size-larger-than)

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Aug 24 2021 - 21:59:59 EST


On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:58:59AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:24:44 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is just weird. What I am seeing is that for every source file
> > where gcc emits a warning: it then follows that up with this
> > >> cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option '-Wno-alloc-size-larger-than'
>
> I see the same, as well as:
>
> <stdin>:1515:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp]
> cc1: warning: unrecognized command line option '-Wno-alloc-size-larger-than'
>
> But only on my gcc 7.3.1 builds (the rest are gcc 10).
>
> > Smells like a gcc bug to me.
>
> Yes
>
> Also noted here: https://github.com/DynamoRIO/drmemory/issues/2099 (second comment)

Wow, this is really weird. Okay, thanks for the pointers. I'll keep
investigating. I may need to version-limit the use of __alloc_size,
though I'd rather not. We've been able to depend on has_builtin() nicely
for a while now. :P

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Kees Cook