[PATCH] string.h: un-fortify memcpy_and_pad

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Sep 6 06:02:44 PDT 2017


On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com> wrote:
>> The way I'd implemented the new helper memcpy_and_pad  with
>> __FORTIFY_INLINE caused compiler warnings for certain kernel
>> configurations.
>>
>> This helper is only used in a single place at this time, and thus
>> doesn't benefit much from fortification. So simplify the code
>> by dropping fortification support for now.
>>
>> Fixes: 3c5fa8cd18f8 "string.h: add memcpy_and_pad()"
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>
>
> Looks good to me,
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> I've added this to my randconfig testing tree, if you don't hear anything
> from me by tomorrow, you can assume that it caused no other failures.

build-tested successfully.

Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>



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