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On 9/6/21 7:29 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 9/6/21 6:12 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 4:49 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> but I'm not seeing why that one happens on sparc64, but not on arm64
>>>> or x86-64. There doesn't seem to be anything architecture-specific
>>>> anywhere in that area.
>>>>
>>>> Funky.
>>>
>>> Not really. That is because de->di_fname is always 16 bytes but size
>>> can be 48 if the node is really a link. The use of de is overloaded
>>> in that case; de is struct qnx4_inode_entry (where di_fname is 16 bytes)
>>> but the actual data is struct qnx4_link_info where the name is 48 bytes
>>> long. A possible fix (compile tested only) is below.
>>>
>>> I think the warning/error is only reported with gcc 11.x. Do you possibly
>>> use an older compiler for x86/arm64 ?
>>
>> No. Literally the same exact version. All of them are
>>
>>      gcc version 11.2.1 20210728
>>
>> from F34.
>>
>> I suspect it's something about the config - a sparc64 allmodconfig
>> presumably doesn't end up having some of the things x86-64 has enabled
>> (because of different core config parameters), and then optimizes
>> differently as a result and shows the issue that way.
>>
>> Or something. <wild handwaving>
>>
> 
> Looks like Arnd stumbled into the qnx4 problem before:
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99578
> 

... and submitted a patch for it:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210322160253.4032422-6-arnd@kernel.org/

Looks like it got lost.

Guenter