eal/x86: ignore gcc 10 stringop-overflow warnings
authorKevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:43:35 +0000 (16:43 +0100)
committerDavid Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 May 2020 09:45:10 +0000 (11:45 +0200)
commitb5b3ea803e4741ad6a46a38d8227c78226d9054d
tree3846fc620540d495e03e23e94edad5fa7cdae19d
parentf8afd2924753b7fbc9e28771277928ac1d6fb4a7
eal/x86: ignore gcc 10 stringop-overflow warnings

stringop-overflow warns when it sees a possible overflow
in a string operation.

In the rte_memcpy functions different branches are taken
depending on the size. stringop-overflow is raised for the
branches in the function where it sees the static size of the
src could be overflowed.

However, in reality a correct size argument and in some cases
dynamic allocation would ensure that this does not happen.

For example, in the case below for key, the correct path will be
chosen in rte_memcpy_generic at runtime based on the size argument
but as some paths in the function could lead to a cast to 32 bytes
a warning is raised.

In function ‘_mm256_storeu_si256’,
inlined from ‘rte_memcpy_generic’
at ../lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_memcpy.h:315:2,
inlined from ‘iavf_configure_rss_key’
at ../lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_memcpy.h:869:10:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/include/avxintrin.h:928:8:
warning: writing 32 bytes into a region of size 1 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
  928 |   *__P = __A;
      |   ~~~~~^~~~~
In file included
from ../drivers/net/iavf/../../common/iavf/iavf_prototype.h:10,
from ../drivers/net/iavf/iavf.h:9,
from ../drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c:22:

../drivers/net/iavf/iavf_vchnl.c:
In function ‘iavf_configure_rss_key’:

../drivers/net/iavf/../../common/iavf/virtchnl.h:508:5:
note: at offset 0 to object ‘key’ with size 1 declared here
  508 |  u8 key[1];         /* RSS hash key, packed bytes */
      |     ^~~

Ignore the stringop-overflow warnings for rte_memcpy.h functions.

Bugzilla ID: 394
Bugzilla ID: 421
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
lib/librte_eal/x86/include/rte_memcpy.h