On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > From the GCC manual: > > The nonstring variable attribute specifies that an object or member > declaration with type array of char or pointer to char is intended to > store character arrays that do not necessarily contain a terminating NUL > character. This is useful in detecting uses of such arrays or pointers > with functions that expect NUL-terminated strings, and to avoid warnings > when such an array or pointer is used as an argument to a bounded string > manipulation function such as strncpy. > > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html > > Some reports are already coming to the LKML regarding these > warnings. When they are false positives, we can use __nonstring to let > gcc know a NUL character is not required; like in this case: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/16/135 > > Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> > Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
I would have expected to have seen __nonstring used somewhere as part of this patch.
