Re: [PATCH] string.h: un-fortify memcpy_and_pad

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The way I'd implemented the new helper memcpy_and_pad  with
>> __FORTIFY_INLINE caused compiler warnings for certain kernel
>> configurations.
>>
>> This helper is only used in a single place at this time, and thus
>> doesn't benefit much from fortification. So simplify the code
>> by dropping fortification support for now.
>>
>> Fixes: 3c5fa8cd18f8 "string.h: add memcpy_and_pad()"
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good to me,
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> I've added this to my randconfig testing tree, if you don't hear anything
> from me by tomorrow, you can assume that it caused no other failures.

build-tested successfully.

Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>