Re: [PATCH] [RFC] xfrm: work around a clang-19 fortifiy-string false-positive

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024, at 19:45, Nathan Chancellor wrote:

> Unfortunately, I have no idea why it is complaining nor why your patch
> resolves it but the combination of FORTIFY_SOURCE and KASAN certainly
> seems like a reasonable place to start looking. I will see if I can come
> up with a smaller reproducer to see if it becomes more obvious why this
> code triggers this warning.

I know at least why my patch avoids the warning -- it removes the
call to memset() that contains the check. Unfortunately that still
doesn't explain what caused it.

      Arnd