[PATCH] string: uninline memcpy_and_pad

[Guenter Roeck]

When building m68k:allmodconfig, recent versions of gcc generate the
following error if the length of UTS_RELEASE is less than 8 bytes.

In function 'memcpy_and_pad',
    inlined from 'nvmet_execute_disc_identify' at
    	drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c:268:2:
arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h:72:25: error:
	'__builtin_memcpy' reading 8 bytes from a region of size 7

Discussions around the problem suggest that this only happens if an
architecture does not provide strlen(), if -ffreestanding is provided as
compiler option, and if CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=n. All of this is the case
for m68k. The exact reasons are unknown, but seem to be related to the
ability of the compiler to evaluate the return value of strlen() and
the resulting execution flow in memcpy_and_pad(). It would be possible
to work around the problem by using sizeof(UTS_RELEASE) instead of
strlen(UTS_RELEASE), but that would only postpone the problem until the
function is called in a similar way. Uninline memcpy_and_pad() instead
to solve the problem for good.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Moved to lib/string_helpers.c
    Balanced { } in if/else statement to make checkpatch happy
    Added Reviewed-by: /Acked-by: tags

 include/linux/string.h | 19 ++-----------------
 lib/string_helpers.c   | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 5a36608144a9..b6572aeca2f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -253,23 +253,8 @@ static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path)
 #include <linux/fortify-string.h>
 #endif
 
-/**
- * memcpy_and_pad - Copy one buffer to another with padding
- * @dest: Where to copy to
- * @dest_len: The destination buffer size
- * @src: Where to copy from
- * @count: The number of bytes to copy
- * @pad: Character to use for padding if space is left in destination.
- */
-static inline void memcpy_and_pad(void *dest, size_t dest_len,
-				  const void *src, size_t count, int pad)
-{
-	if (dest_len > count) {
-		memcpy(dest, src, count);
-		memset(dest + count, pad,  dest_len - count);
-	} else
-		memcpy(dest, src, dest_len);
-}
+void memcpy_and_pad(void *dest, size_t dest_len, const void *src, size_t count,
+		    int pad);
 
 /**
  * memset_after - Set a value after a struct member to the end of a struct
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
index faa9d8e4e2c5..d5d008f5b1d9 100644
--- a/lib/string_helpers.c
+++ b/lib/string_helpers.c
@@ -883,6 +883,26 @@ char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strreplace);
 
+/**
+ * memcpy_and_pad - Copy one buffer to another with padding
+ * @dest: Where to copy to
+ * @dest_len: The destination buffer size
+ * @src: Where to copy from
+ * @count: The number of bytes to copy
+ * @pad: Character to use for padding if space is left in destination.
+ */
+void memcpy_and_pad(void *dest, size_t dest_len, const void *src, size_t count,
+		    int pad)
+{
+	if (dest_len > count) {
+		memcpy(dest, src, count);
+		memset(dest + count, pad,  dest_len - count);
+	} else {
+		memcpy(dest, src, dest_len);
+	}
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcpy_and_pad);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE
 void fortify_panic(const char *name)
 {
-- 
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