Skip to content
Commit 2618a0da authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by David S. Miller
Browse files

etherdevice: Adjust ether_addr* prototypes to silence -Wstringop-overead



With GCC 12, -Wstringop-overread was warning about an implicit cast from
char[6] to char[8]. However, the extra 2 bytes are always thrown away,
alignment doesn't matter, and the risk of hitting the edge of unallocated
memory has been accepted, so this prototype can just be converted to a
regular char *. Silences:

net/core/dev.c: In function ‘bpf_prog_run_generic_xdp’: net/core/dev.c:4618:21: warning: ‘ether_addr_equal_64bits’ reading 8 bytes from a region of size 6 [-Wstringop-overread]
 4618 |         orig_host = ether_addr_equal_64bits(eth->h_dest, > skb->dev->dev_addr);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
net/core/dev.c:4618:21: note: referencing argument 1 of type ‘const u8[8]’ {aka ‘const unsigned char[8]’}
net/core/dev.c:4618:21: note: referencing argument 2 of type ‘const u8[8]’ {aka ‘const unsigned char[8]’}
In file included from net/core/dev.c:91: include/linux/etherdevice.h:375:20: note: in a call to function ‘ether_addr_equal_64bits’
  375 | static inline bool ether_addr_equal_64bits(const u8 addr1[6+2],
      |                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Reported-by: default avatarMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220212090811.uuzk6d76agw2vv73@pengutronix.de
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 867b1db8
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment