Re: 2.6.33-rc1 build failure: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 12/21/2009 01:13 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>>>                  from mm/migrate.c:15:
>>> In function ???copy_from_user???,
>>>     inlined from ???do_pages_stat??? at mm/migrate.c:1009:
>>> /tmp/all-yes-config/2.6.33-rc1/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:213: error: 
>>> call to ???copy_from_user_overflow??? declared with attribute error: 
>>> copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct
>>
>> afaik, ingo already queued this fix.
>> please wait (very) few days.
>>
>> thanks.
> 
> hm, the one mm/migrate.c fix we had is already in -rc1:
> 
>  b9255850: mm: Adjust do_pages_stat() so gcc can see copy_from_user() is safe
> 
> I've Cc:-ed more folks.
> 

That *is* the error report that he is describing.  What version of gcc
is he using?  It might be dumber than the one I have.

	-hpa

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