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    selftests/resctrl: Enable gcc checks to detect buffer overflows · a9d26a30
    Fenghua Yu authored
    David reported a buffer overflow error in the check_results() function of
    the cmt unit test and he suggested enabling _FORTIFY_SOURCE gcc compiler
    option to automatically detect any such errors.
    
    Feature Test Macros man page describes_FORTIFY_SOURCE as below
    
    "Defining this macro causes some lightweight checks to be performed to
    detect some buffer overflow errors when employing various string and memory
    manipulation functions (for example, memcpy, memset, stpcpy, strcpy,
    strncpy, strcat, strncat, sprintf, snprintf, vsprintf, vsnprintf, gets, and
    wide character variants thereof). For some functions, argument consistency
    is checked; for example, a check is made that open has been supplied with a
    mode argument when the specified flags include O_CREAT. Not all problems
    are detected, just some common cases.
    
    If _FORTIFY_SOURCE is set to 1, with compiler optimization level 1 (gcc
    -O1) and above, checks that shouldn't change the behavior of conforming
    programs are performed.
    
    With _FORTIFY_SOURCE set to 2, some more checking is added, but some
    conforming programs might fail.
    
    Some of the checks can be performed at compile time (via macros logic
    implemented in header files), and result in compiler warnings; other checks
    take place at run time, and result in a run-time error if the check fails.
    
    Use of this macro requires compiler support, available with gcc since
    version 4.0."
    
    Fix the buffer overflow error in the check_results() function of the cmt
    unit test and enable _FORTIFY_SOURCE gcc check to catch any future buffer
    overflow errors.
    Reported-by: default avatarDavid Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarDavid Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarBabu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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