Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 4 authors, 2021-09-12

Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: i825xx: Use absolute_pointer for memcpy on fixed memory location

From: Jeroen Roovers <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-12 16:13:14
Also in: linux-alpha, lkml

On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 09:01:47 -0700
Guenter Roeck [off-list ref] wrote:
gcc 11.x reports the following compiler warning/error.

drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c: In function 'i82596_probe':
    ./arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h:72:25: error:
            '__builtin_memcpy' reading 6 bytes from a region of size 0
                    [-Werror=stringop-overread]

Use absolute_address() to work around the problem.
=> absolute_pointer()
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c index
b8a40146b895..b482f6f633bd 100644 ---
a/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c +++
b/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c @@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ static
struct net_device * __init i82596_probe(void) err = -ENODEV;
 			goto out;
 		}
-		memcpy(eth_addr, (void *) 0xfffc1f2c,
ETH_ALEN);	/* YUCK! Get addr from NOVRAM */
+		memcpy(eth_addr, absolute_pointer(0xfffc1f2c),
ETH_ALEN); /* YUCK! Get addr from NOVRAM */ dev->base_addr =
MVME_I596_BASE; dev->irq = (unsigned) MVME16x_IRQ_I596;
 		goto found;

Regards,
      jer
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