[PATCH] wireless: ath: work around false-positive stringop-overread warning
Simon Horman
simon.horman at corigine.com
Thu Apr 20 07:04:14 PDT 2023
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 10:54:20PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> In a rare arm64 randconfig build, I got multiple warnings for ath11k
> and ath12k:
>
> In function 'ath11k_peer_assoc_h_ht',
> inlined from 'ath11k_peer_assoc_prepare' at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:2665:2:
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c:1709:13: error: 'ath11k_peer_assoc_h_ht_masked' reading 10 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]
> 1709 | if (ath11k_peer_assoc_h_ht_masked(ht_mcs_mask))
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> This happens whenever gcc-13 fails to inline one of the functions
> that take a fixed-length array argument but gets passed a pointer.
>
> Change these functions to all take a regular pointer argument
> instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at corigine.com>
Note: I was not able to reproduce the problem described above.
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