string: uninline memcpy_and_pad
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tue, 2 Nov 2021 14:24:20 +0000 (07:24 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 21 Nov 2021 12:44:12 +0000 (13:44 +0100)
commitd27b2dcdb8d28a9435c04c9767ba18f89642a148
treee0c0406fc9b91916086cf4fdaa3bf8013e5905e4
parent3b17187f5ca1f5d0c641fdc90a6a7e38afdf8fae
string: uninline memcpy_and_pad

commit 5c4e0a21fae877a7ef89be6dcc6263ec672372b8 upstream.

When building m68k:allmodconfig, recent versions of gcc generate the
following error if the length of UTS_RELEASE is less than 8 bytes.

  In function 'memcpy_and_pad',
    inlined from 'nvmet_execute_disc_identify' at
      drivers/nvme/target/discovery.c:268:2: arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h:72:25: error:
'__builtin_memcpy' reading 8 bytes from a region of size 7

Discussions around the problem suggest that this only happens if an
architecture does not provide strlen(), if -ffreestanding is provided as
compiler option, and if CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE=n. All of this is the case
for m68k. The exact reasons are unknown, but seem to be related to the
ability of the compiler to evaluate the return value of strlen() and
the resulting execution flow in memcpy_and_pad(). It would be possible
to work around the problem by using sizeof(UTS_RELEASE) instead of
strlen(UTS_RELEASE), but that would only postpone the problem until the
function is called in a similar way. Uninline memcpy_and_pad() instead
to solve the problem for good.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/string.h
lib/string_helpers.c