Arnd Bergmann
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gcc-8 has a new warning that detects overlapping input and output arguments in memcpy(). It triggers for sit_init_net() calling ipip6_tunnel_clone_6rd(), which is actually correct: net/ipv6/sit.c: In function 'sit_init_net': net/ipv6/sit.c:192:3: error: 'memcpy' source argument is the same as destination [-Werror=restrict] The problem here is that the logic detecting the memcpy() arguments finds them to be the same, but the conditional that tests for the input and output of ipip6_tunnel_clone_6rd() to be identical is not a compile-time constant. We know that netdev_priv(t->dev) is the same as t for a tunnel device, and comparing "dev" directly here lets the compiler figure out as well that 'dev == sitn->fb_tunnel_dev' when called from sit_init_net(), so it no longer warns. This code is old, so Cc stable to make sure that we don't get the warning for older kernels built with new gcc. Cc: Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83456 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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