From ca5dabcff1df6bc8c413922b5fa63cc602858803 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Leroy Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:43:43 +0200 Subject: powerpc/prom_init: Fix build failure with GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL and KASAN When CONFIG_KASAN is selected, we expect prom_init to use __memset() because it is too early to use memset(). But with CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STRUCTLEAK_BYREF_ALL, the compiler adds calls to memset() to clear objects on stack, hence the following failure: PROMCHK arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check Error: External symbol 'memset' referenced from prom_init.c make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:204 : arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check] Erreur 1 prom_find_machine_type() is called from prom_init() and is called only once, so lets put compat[] in BSS instead of stack to avoid that. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3802811f7cf94f730be44688539c01bba3a3b5c0.1654875808.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu --- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c index 04694ec423f6..13d6cb188835 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c @@ -2302,7 +2302,7 @@ static void __init prom_init_stdout(void) static int __init prom_find_machine_type(void) { - char compat[256]; + static char compat[256] __prombss; int len, i = 0; #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 phandle rtas; -- cgit v1.2.3