Re: [bug report] cpumask: gcc 13.x emits compilation error on PowerPC

[Nilay Shroff]

Hi Brian,

On 11/12/24 02:27, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi Nilay,
> 
> I'm responding here to try to help move things along for you, even
> though I'm not a maintainer here and don't have a strong (nor
> authoritative) opinion.
Thanks, I really appreciate your help:)
> 
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 5:38 AM Nilay Shroff <nilay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 11/6/24 23:30, Brian Norris wrote:
>>> IIUC, he was hoping for better compiler diagnostics to help out there.
>> Hmm ok
> 
> AFAICT, things aren't moving so fast there, so it might wise to try to
> silence the problem for now.
Okay
> 
>>> (Also, I imitated Thomas's .config notes from that report and couldn't
>>> reproduce with my GCC 13.2.0.)
>>>
>>> I also happen to see there are a few scattered instances of either
>>> disabling or working around -Wstringop-overread false positives in the
>>> tree today.
>>>
>> So shall we wait until we get better diagnostics from GCC or can we bypass this
>> error temporarily with either using __NO_FORTIFY (as I proposed  in my another
>> email) or disable -Wstringop-overread for kernel/padata.c file? Later when we
>> find a better fix, we may then revert this change.
> 
> If this warning is causing pain, then we should probably bypass it. I
> *think* there's less blast radius by simply disabling
> -Wstringop-overread for this file, but I'm not completely sure.
> 
Alright, I'll send a formal patch disabling stringop-overead for kernel/padata.c file.

Thanks,
--Nilay