[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/5] qemu/compiler: Define QEMU_NONSTRING

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

GCC 8 introduced the -Wstringop-truncation checker to detect truncation by
the strncat and strncpy functions (closely related to -Wstringop-overflow,
which detect buffer overflow by string-modifying functions declared in
<string.h>).

Add the QEMU_NONSTRING macro which checks if the compiler supports this
attribute.

>From the GCC manual [*]:

  The nonstring variable attribute specifies that an object or member
  declaration with type array of char, signed char, or unsigned char,
  or pointer to such a type is intended to store character arrays that
  do not necessarily contain a terminating NUL. This is useful in detecting
  uses of such arrays or pointers with functions that expect NUL-terminated
  strings, and to avoid warnings when such an array or pointer is used as
  an argument to a bounded string manipulation function such as strncpy.

[*] 
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html#index-nonstring-variable-attribute

Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
---
 include/qemu/compiler.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/qemu/compiler.h b/include/qemu/compiler.h
index 261842beae..2d8f507c73 100644
--- a/include/qemu/compiler.h
+++ b/include/qemu/compiler.h
@@ -151,6 +151,21 @@
 # define QEMU_ERROR(X)
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * The nonstring variable attribute specifies that an object or member
+ * declaration with type array of char or pointer to char is intended
+ * to store character arrays that do not necessarily contain a terminating
+ * NUL character. This is useful in detecting uses of such arrays or pointers
+ * with functions that expect NUL-terminated strings, and to avoid warnings
+ * when such an array or pointer is used as an argument to a bounded string
+ * manipulation function such as strncpy.
+ */
+#if __has_attribute(nonstring)
+# define QEMU_NONSTRING __attribute__((nonstring))
+#else
+# define QEMU_NONSTRING
+#endif
+
 /* Implement C11 _Generic via GCC builtins.  Example:
  *
  *    QEMU_GENERIC(x, (float, sinf), (long double, sinl), sin) (x)
-- 
2.17.2