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When a character array without a terminating NUL character has a static
initializer, GCC 15's -Wunterminated-string-initialization will only
warn if the array lacks the "nonstring" attribute[1]. Mark the arrays
with __nonstring to correctly identify the char array as "not a C string"
and thereby eliminate the warning:

In file included from ../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c:42:
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1070:35: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (33 chars into 32 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
 1070 |         GEM_STAT_TITLE(TX1519CNT, "tx_greater_than_1518_byte_frames"),
      |                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1050:24: note: in definition of macro 'GEM_STAT_TITLE_BITS'
 1050 |         .stat_string = title,                           \
      |                        ^~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1070:9: note: in expansion of macro 'GEM_STAT_TITLE'
 1070 |         GEM_STAT_TITLE(TX1519CNT, "tx_greater_than_1518_byte_frames"),
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1097:35: warning: initializer-string for array of 'char' truncates NUL terminator but destination lacks 'nonstring' attribute (33 chars into 32 available) [-Wunterminated-string-initialization]
 1097 |         GEM_STAT_TITLE(RX1519CNT, "rx_greater_than_1518_byte_frames"),
      |                                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1050:24: note: in definition of macro 'GEM_STAT_TITLE_BITS'
 1050 |         .stat_string = title,                           \
      |                        ^~~~~
../drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h:1097:9: note: in expansion of macro 'GEM_STAT_TITLE'
 1097 |         GEM_STAT_TITLE(RX1519CNT, "rx_greater_than_1518_byte_frames"),
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Since these strings are copied with memcpy() they do not need to be
NUL terminated, and can use __nonstring:

                        memcpy(p, gem_statistics[i].stat_string,
                               ETH_GSTRING_LEN);

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117178 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250312200700.make.521-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Kees Cook authored and Paolo Abeni committed Mar 19, 2025
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Expand Up @@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ struct gem_stats {
* this register should contribute to.
*/
struct gem_statistic {
char stat_string[ETH_GSTRING_LEN];
char stat_string[ETH_GSTRING_LEN] __nonstring;
int offset;
u32 stat_bits;
};
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