[PATCH v3] net: macb: Add __nonstring annotations for unterminated strings
From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Mar 12 2025 - 16:07:16 EST
When a character array without a terminating NUL character has a static
initializer, GCC 15's -Wunterminated-string-initialization will only
warn if the array lacks the "nonstring" attribute[1]. Mark the arrays
with __nonstring to correctly identify the char array as "not a C string"
and thereby eliminate the warning:
In file included from ../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c:42:
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1070:35: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (33 chars into 32 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
1070 | GEM_STAT_TITLE(TX1519CNT, "tx_greater_than_1518_byte_frames"),
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1050:24: note: in definition of macro 'GEM_STAT_TITLE_BITS'
1050 | .stat_string = title, \
| ^~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1070:9: note: in expansion of macro 'GEM_STAT_TITLE'
1070 | GEM_STAT_TITLE(TX1519CNT, "tx_greater_than_1518_byte_frames"),
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1097:35: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (33 chars into 32 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
1097 | GEM_STAT_TITLE(RX1519CNT, "rx_greater_than_1518_byte_frames"),
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1050:24: note: in definition of macro 'GEM_STAT_TITLE_BITS'
1050 | .stat_string = title, \
| ^~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1097:9: note: in expansion of macro 'GEM_STAT_TITLE'
1097 | GEM_STAT_TITLE(RX1519CNT, "rx_greater_than_1518_byte_frames"),
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Since these strings are copied with memcpy() they do not need to be
NUL terminated, and can use __nonstring:
memcpy(p, gem_statistics[i].stat_string,
ETH_GSTRING_LEN);
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117178 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: improve commit message (Bill), drop whitespace change (Bill)
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250311224412.it.153-kees@xxxxxxxxxx/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250310222415.work.815-kees@xxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h
index 2847278d9cd4..d2a4c180d6a6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ struct gem_stats {
* this register should contribute to.
*/
struct gem_statistic {
- char stat_string[ETH_GSTRING_LEN];
+ char stat_string[ETH_GSTRING_LEN] __nonstring;
int offset;
u32 stat_bits;
};
--
2.34.1