Re: Build regressions/improvements in v6.8-rc2

[Guenter Roeck]

On 1/29/24 03:06, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
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> parisc-gcc1[23]/parisc-{allmod,def}config
>
>    + /kisskb/src/drivers/hwmon/pc87360.c: error: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]:  => 383:51

The "fix" for this problem would be similar to commit 4265eb062a73 ("hwmon: (pc87360)
Bounds check data->innr usage"). The change would be something like

-               for (i = 0; i < data->tempnr; i++) {
+               for (i = 0; i < min(data->tempnr, ARRAY_SIZE(data->temp_max)); i++) {

but that would be purely random because the loop accesses several arrays
indexed with i, and tempnr is never >= ARRAY_SIZE(data->temp_max).
I kind of resist making such changes to the code just because the compiler
is clueless.

Are we sprinkling the kernel code with code like this to make the compiler happy ?

Guenter