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Re: nasty bug in /usr/sbin/grub-probe



On 4/3/22 12:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/3/22 17:19, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I am curious if you can get the linux-4.19.114 kernel to compile.  For me it just blows up with :

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arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_node_by_name':
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:648:22: error: 'strcmp' reading 1 or more bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
   648 |                 if (!strcmp(names + ep[ret].name_offset, name))
       |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:78:33: note: at offset 16 into source object 'mdesc' of size 16
    78 |         struct mdesc_hdr        mdesc;
       |                                 ^~~~~
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_get_property':
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:693:22: error: 'strcmp' reading 1 or more bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
   693 |                 if (!strcmp(names + ep->name_offset, name)) {
       |                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:78:33: note: at offset 16 into source object 'mdesc' of size 16
    78 |         struct mdesc_hdr        mdesc;
       |                                 ^~~~~
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c: In function 'mdesc_next_arc':
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:720:21: error: 'strcmp' reading 1 or more bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
   720 |                 if (strcmp(names + ep->name_offset, arc_type))
       |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c:78:33: note: at offset 16 into source object 'mdesc' of size 16
    78 |         struct mdesc_hdr        mdesc;
       |                                 ^~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:304: arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:544: arch/sparc/kernel] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:1053: arch/sparc] Error 2


Not sure what to make of that.

Well, it's up right there, you are building with -Werror enabled. You have to disable that.


No, I am not. I am going with whatever is in the Makefile.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc7c028dcdbfe981bca75d2a7b95f363eb691ef3

So this was seen before regardless.


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Dennis Clarke
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