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Subject[PATCH] kdb: use memmove instead of overlapping memcpy
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gcc discovered that the memcpy() arguments in kdbnearsym() overlap, so
we should really use memmove(), which is defined to handle that correctly:

In function 'memcpy',
inlined from 'kdbnearsym' at /git/arm-soc/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:132:4:
/git/arm-soc/include/linux/string.h:353:9: error: '__builtin_memcpy' accessing 792 bytes at offsets 0 and 8 overlaps 784 bytes at offset 8 [-Werror=restrict]
return __builtin_memcpy(p, q, size);

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
index 5d8ef3a07ecd..1ad4370ccbf0 100644
--- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
+++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
@@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ int kdbnearsym(unsigned long addr, kdb_symtab_t *symtab)
}
if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(kdb_name_table)) {
debug_kfree(kdb_name_table[0]);
- memcpy(kdb_name_table, kdb_name_table+1,
+ memmove(kdb_name_table, kdb_name_table+1,
sizeof(kdb_name_table[0]) *
(ARRAY_SIZE(kdb_name_table)-1));
} else {
debug_kfree(knt1);
knt1 = kdb_name_table[i];
- memcpy(kdb_name_table+i, kdb_name_table+i+1,
+ memmove(kdb_name_table+i, kdb_name_table+i+1,
sizeof(kdb_name_table[0]) *
(ARRAY_SIZE(kdb_name_table)-i-1));
}
--
2.9.0
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