Warnings whilst building 5.2.0+

From: Chris Clayton
Date: Tue Jul 09 2019 - 02:07:17 EST


Hi,

I've pulled Linus' tree this morning and, after running 'make oldconfig', tried a build. During that build I got the
following warnings, which look to me like they should be fixed. 'git describe' shows v5.2-915-g5ad18b2e60b7 and my
compiler is the 20190706 snapshot of gcc 9.

In file included from arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:35:
In function 'sanitize_boot_params',
inlined from 'copy_bootdata' at arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:391:2:
./arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h:40:3: warning: 'memset' offset [197, 448] from the object at 'boot_params' is
out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'ext_ramdisk_image' with type 'unsigned int' at offset 192 [-Warray-bounds]
40 | memset(&boot_params->ext_ramdisk_image, 0,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
41 | (char *)&boot_params->efi_info -
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
42 | (char *)&boot_params->ext_ramdisk_image);
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam_utils.h:43:3: warning: 'memset' offset [493, 497] from the object at 'boot_params' is
out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'kbd_status' with type 'unsigned char' at offset 491 [-Warray-bounds]
43 | memset(&boot_params->kbd_status, 0,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
44 | (char *)&boot_params->hdr -
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
45 | (char *)&boot_params->kbd_status);
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Happy to test any patches, but please cc me as I'm not subscribed to LKML.

Chris