* Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (phi...@redhat.com) wrote:
> GCC 8 added a -Wstringop-truncation warning:
>
> The -Wstringop-truncation warning added in GCC 8.0 via r254630 for
> bug 81117 is specifically intended to highlight likely unintended
> uses of the strncpy function that truncate the terminating NUL
> character from the source string.
>
> This new warning leads to compilation failures:
>
> CC migration/global_state.o
> qemu/migration/global_state.c: In function 'global_state_store_running':
> qemu/migration/global_state.c:45:5: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 100
> equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> strncpy((char *)global_state.runstate, state,
> sizeof(global_state.runstate));
>
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make: *** [qemu/rules.mak:69: migration/global_state.o] Error 1
>
> Use the QEMU_NONSTRING attribute, since this array is intended to store
> character arrays that do not necessarily contain a terminating NUL.
>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
> ---
> migration/global_state.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/migration/global_state.c b/migration/global_state.c
> index 8e8ab5c51e..6e19333422 100644
> --- a/migration/global_state.c
> +++ b/migration/global_state.c
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
>
> typedef struct {
> uint32_t size;
> - uint8_t runstate[100];
> + uint8_t runstate[100] QEMU_NONSTRING;
Hmm; global_state_post_load needs to be fixed for this; it
uses s->runsate and ends up passing it to both a trace
and a qapi_enum_parse - so it's really treating it as a string.
That code is unsafe anyway since it's assuming the received
runstate would be terminated.
Dave
> RunState state;
> bool received;
> } GlobalState;
> --
> 2.17.2
>
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
