Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of Linus' tree

From: Nathan Chancellor <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:48:47 -0700

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 11:20:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Heh. We have several other cases of that "disable warning" pattern
> that does *not* use that cc-disable-warning thing.
> 
> In fact, right next to the new unterminated-string-initialization case
> (just a couple of lines above it), we have a
> 
>    $(call cc-option, -Wno-stringop-overflow)
> 
> thing, along with several cases in loongarch and riscv.
> 
> So they are presumably _also_ broken, but perhaps just happened to
> silently work due to compiler versions (and that stringop-overflow
> case is gated by a config option that might also have hidden it from
> people).

Indeed, there were a couple of patches that flew by recently fixing some
of those instances for that reason but I guess Masahiro may have missed
them:

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Cheers,
Nathan