Without the patch, the following gcc-11 compiler warning is emitted for
kvmdump.c:
In function 'write_mapfile_registers',
inlined from 'write_mapfile_trailer' at kvmdump.c:947:3,
inlined from 'kvmdump_init' at kvmdump.c:145:4:
kvmdump.c:972:13: warning: 'write' reading 8 bytes from a region of size 4 [-Wstringop-overread]
972 | if (write(kvm->mapfd, &kvm->cpu_devices, sizeof(uint64_t)) != sizeof(uint64_t))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from kvmdump.c:19:
kvmdump.c: In function 'kvmdump_init':
kvmdump.h:67:18: note: source object 'cpu_devices' of size 4
67 | uint32_t cpu_devices;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from defs.h:26,
from kvmdump.c:18:
/usr/include/unistd.h:378:16: note: in a call to function 'write' declared with attribute 'access (read_only, 2, 3)'
378 | extern ssize_t write (int __fd, const void *__buf, size_t __n) __wur
| ^~~~~
Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@nec.com>
Kazuhito Hagio
Dave Anderson