GCC 9.3.0 on Ubuntu complains: In file included from /usr/include/string.h:495, from /home/travis/build/huth/qemu/include/qemu/osdep.h:87, from ../migration/global_state.c:13: In function ‘strncpy’, inlined from ‘global_state_store_running’ at ../migration/global_state.c:47:5: /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string_fortified.h:106:10: error: ‘__builtin_strncpy’ specified bound 100 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation] 106 | return __builtin___strncpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos (__dest)); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
... but we apparently really want to do a strncpy here - the size is already checked with the assert() statement right in front of it. To silence the warning, simply replace it with our strpadcpy() function. Suggested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> (two years ago) Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> --- migration/global_state.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/migration/global_state.c b/migration/global_state.c index 25311479a4..a33947ca32 100644 --- a/migration/global_state.c +++ b/migration/global_state.c @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ void global_state_store_running(void) { const char *state = RunState_str(RUN_STATE_RUNNING); assert(strlen(state) < sizeof(global_state.runstate)); - strncpy((char *)global_state.runstate, - state, sizeof(global_state.runstate)); + strpadcpy((char *)global_state.runstate, sizeof(global_state.runstate), + state, '\0'); } bool global_state_received(void) -- 2.18.2