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authorShawn Landden <shawn@git.icu>2019-05-18 20:32:38 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-05-28 14:49:03 +0200
commit97acec7df172cd1e450f81f5e293c0aa145a2797 (patch)
treed1bf3baf57f9cfd2b8218d9d070fbf97350a0331 /tools
parentMerge tag 'kbuild-fixes-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/gi... (diff)
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perf data: Fix 'strncat may truncate' build failure with recent gcc
This strncat() is safe because the buffer was allocated with zalloc(), however gcc doesn't know that. Since the string always has 4 non-null bytes, just use memcpy() here. CC /home/shawn/linux/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.o In file included from /usr/include/string.h:494, from /home/shawn/linux/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.h:27, from util/data-convert-bt.c:22: In function ‘strncat’, inlined from ‘string_set_value’ at util/data-convert-bt.c:274:4: /usr/include/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/bits/string_fortified.h:136:10: error: ‘__builtin_strncat’ output may be truncated copying 4 bytes from a string of length 4 [-Werror=stringop-truncation] 136 | return __builtin___strncat_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos (__dest)); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden <shawn@git.icu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> LPU-Reference: 20190518183238.10954-1-shawn@git.icu Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-289f1jice17ta7tr3tstm9jm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c b/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c
index e0311c9750ad..9097543a818b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/data-convert-bt.c
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static int string_set_value(struct bt_ctf_field *field, const char *string)
if (i > 0)
strncpy(buffer, string, i);
}
- strncat(buffer + p, numstr, 4);
+ memcpy(buffer + p, numstr, 4);
p += 3;
}
}