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stackprot: Make our test a bit more complex

With better compiler optimizations available, a compiler may see we do
nothing with our buffer after calling memset and omit the call, thus
causing us to not smash the stack.  Add a comment to explain why we now
also have a printf call, so that the test will pass as the memset will
not be omitted.

Reported-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Tom Rini 2 years ago
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      cmd/stackprot_test.c

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cmd/stackprot_test.c

@@ -9,9 +9,16 @@
 static int do_test_stackprot_fail(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
 				  char *const argv[])
 {
+	/*
+	 * In order to avoid having the compiler optimize away the stack smashing
+	 * we need to do a little something here.
+	 */
 	char a[128];
 
 	memset(a, 0xa5, 512);
+
+	printf("We have smashed our stack as this should not exceed 128: sizeof(a) = %ld\n", strlen(a));
+
 	return 0;
 }