[PATCH] powerpc/64: Fix build failure with GCC 8.1

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Mon May 28 2018 - 12:39:38 EST


CC arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.o
arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c: In function 'nvram_create_partition':
arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c:1042:2: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 12 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy(new_part->header.name, name, 12);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CC arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.o
In function 'make_field',
inlined from 'ps3_repository_read_boot_dat_address' at arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c:900:9:
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c:106:2: error: 'strncpy' output truncated before terminating nul copying 8 bytes from a string of the same length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
strncpy((char *)&n, text, 8);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index ba681dac7b46..7507448cd904 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ loff_t __init nvram_create_partition(const char *name, int sig,
new_part->index = free_part->index;
new_part->header.signature = sig;
new_part->header.length = size;
- strncpy(new_part->header.name, name, 12);
+ strncpy(new_part->header.name, name, sizeof(new_part->header.name) - 1);
new_part->header.checksum = nvram_checksum(&new_part->header);

rc = nvram_write_header(new_part);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c
index 50dbaf24b1ee..b4d6628eec5e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/repository.c
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ static u64 make_first_field(const char *text, u64 index)

static u64 make_field(const char *text, u64 index)
{
- u64 n;
+ u64 n = 0;

- strncpy((char *)&n, text, 8);
+ memcpy((char *)&n, text, min(sizeof(n), strlen(text)));
return n + index;
}

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2.13.3