Hi.
2018-05-31 13:18 GMT+09:00 Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> My apologies if this has already been reported in some capacity, I
> searched the mailing list and patchwork but I didn't see anything.
I think you are the first reporter.
> With GCC 8.1.0, I am starting to see the following warnings from
> Kconfig:
>
> CC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
> LEX scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
> In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2496:
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function ‘conf_write’:
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:748:22: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing likely 7
> or more bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4097 [-Wformat-overflow=]
> sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
> ^~
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:748:19: note: assuming directive output of 7 bytes
> sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
> ^~~~~~
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:748:2: note: ‘sprintf’ output 1 or more bytes
> (assuming 4104) into a destination of size 4097
> sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename);
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:751:23: warning: ‘.tmpconfig.’ directive writing
> 11 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4097 [-Wformat-overflow=]
> sprintf(tmpname, "%s.tmpconfig.%d", dirname, (int)getpid());
> ^~~~~~~~~~~
> scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:751:3: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 13 and 4119
> bytes into a destination of size 4097
> sprintf(tmpname, "%s.tmpconfig.%d", dirname, (int)getpid());
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
> HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
>
> I am not sure if this is a false positive or not, otherwise I would have
> sent a patch. I tested on the latest linux-next with Masahiro's for-next
> branch, currently at commit 57282f7da50c ("Merge branch 'kconfig' into
> for-next").
I think these are legitimate warnings.
A patch is welcome.
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
