Hi Christophe,
I love your patch! Yet something to improve:
[auto build test ERROR on linux/master]
[also build test ERROR on linus/master v5.17-rc3]
[cannot apply to hnaz-mm/master next-20220211]
[If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note.
And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch]
url:
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Christophe-Leroy/mm-Uninline-cop...
base:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
2c271fe77d52a0555161926c232cd5bc07178b39
config: i386-allyesconfig
(
https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220213/202202130121.dZLDqfpe-lk...)
compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
#
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/cf4474ac62f0332bd9d39f9dd74dbb5af...
git remote add linux-review
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
git fetch --no-tags linux-review
Christophe-Leroy/mm-Uninline-copy_overflow/20220212-155040
git checkout cf4474ac62f0332bd9d39f9dd74dbb5afce9a7a4
# save the config file to linux build tree
mkdir build_dir
make W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=i386 SHELL=/bin/bash
If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp(a)intel.com>
All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):
In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:7,
from include/linux/preempt.h:78,
from include/linux/percpu.h:6,
from include/linux/context_tracking_state.h:5,
from include/linux/hardirq.h:5,
from drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c:37:
In function 'check_copy_size',
inlined from 'copy_to_user' at include/linux/uaccess.h:199:6,
inlined from 'mlx4_init_user_cqes' at
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c:317:9,
inlined from 'mlx4_cq_alloc' at
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cq.c:394:10:
>> include/linux/thread_info.h:228:4: error: call to '__bad_copy_from'
declared with attribute error: copy source size is too small
228 | __bad_copy_from();
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This looks like a bug in GCC 9.x
You get the exact same result without my patch when unselecting CONFIG_BUG
You don't get the problem with gcc 8.5
You don't get the problem with gcc 10.3
My patch itself doesn't explain getting this error.
Christophe