Merge 4.15-rc6 into char-misc-next

We want the fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 410ecf17de3c..cfd83eb2f926 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -259,7 +259,10 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *p)
 {
         __kernel_size_t ret;
         size_t p_size = __builtin_object_size(p, 0);
-        if (p_size == (size_t)-1)
+
+        /* Work around gcc excess stack consumption issue */
+        if (p_size == (size_t)-1 ||
+            (__builtin_constant_p(p[p_size - 1]) && p[p_size - 1] == '\0'))
                 return __builtin_strlen(p);
         ret = strnlen(p, p_size);
         if (p_size <= ret)