Comment 13 for bug 1803872

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Eric Blake (eblake) wrote : Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] migration: Use QEMU_NONSTRING for non NUL-terminated arrays

On 12/18/18 11:51 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> GCC 8 added a -Wstringop-truncation warning:
>
> The -Wstringop-truncation warning added in GCC 8.0 via r254630 for
> bug 81117 is specifically intended to highlight likely unintended
> uses of the strncpy function that truncate the terminating NUL
> character from the source string.
>
> This new warning leads to compilation failures:
>
> CC migration/global_state.o
> qemu/migration/global_state.c: In function 'global_state_store_running':
> qemu/migration/global_state.c:45:5: error: 'strncpy' specified bound 100 equals destination size [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
> strncpy((char *)global_state.runstate, state, sizeof(global_state.runstate));
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> make: *** [qemu/rules.mak:69: migration/global_state.o] Error 1
>
> Use the QEMU_NONSTRING attribute, since this array is intended to store
> character arrays that do not necessarily contain a terminating NUL.
>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <email address hidden>
> ---
> migration/global_state.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Should this be squashed with 5/5?

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