Re: [Xen-devel] 4.9.3 preparations

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 19.07.18 at 02:43, <christopher.w.clark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 3:41 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> All,
>>
>> this is supposed to go out in about 3 weeks time. Please point out backport
>> candidates you find missing from its staging branch, but which you consider
>> relevant.
>>
> 
> 
> Marek's patches below are each straightforward and enable clean builds with
> newer gcc.
> 
> fa7789e : tools/libxc: fix strncpy size
> 27751d8 : tools/misc: fix hypothetical buffer overflow in xen-lowmemd
> 938c8f5 : tools/xenpmd: fix possible '\0' truncation
> 7f601f7 : tools/gdbsx: fix -Wstringop-truncation warning
> 437e00f : tools/kdd: mute spurious gcc warning
> 2de2b10 : tools/kdd: alternative way of muting spurious gcc warning
> 3a633c2 : tools/blktap2: fix hypothetical buffer overflow
> 850e89b : tools/blktap2: fix possible '\0' truncation
> 
> This additional patch that I just posted is probably too new for
> consideration for this, but it fixes a build warning with gcc 8.1:
> 
> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-07/msg01718.html 
>  : tools/xentop : replace use of deprecated vwprintw
> 
> so maybe not for this one, but perhaps the next.
> 
> The full set above passed compile test for x86-64, applied on top of
> current staging-4.9.

Ian, you'll be the one to decide whether to take any or all of these.

Jan



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