From: Alexander Gordeev Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:34:23 +0000 (+0200) Subject: rcu: Shut up bogus gcc array bounds warning X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=032dfc87225c96ec1771e5967436c4b23d1dc5d6;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git rcu: Shut up bogus gcc array bounds warning Because gcc does not realize a loop would not be entered ever (i.e. in case of rcu_num_lvls == 1): for (i = 1; i < rcu_num_lvls; i++) rsp->level[i] = rsp->level[i - 1] + levelcnt[i - 1]; some compiler (pre- 5.x?) versions give a bogus warning: kernel/rcu/tree.c: In function ‘rcu_init_one.isra.55’: kernel/rcu/tree.c:4108:13: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds] rsp->level[i] = rsp->level[i - 1] + rsp->levelcnt[i - 1]; ^ Fix that warning by adding an extra item to rcu_state::level[] array. Once the bogus warning is fixed in gcc and kernel drops support of older versions, the dummy item may be removed from the array. Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Suggested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h index 581f8d3c5b28..faee5242d6ff 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h @@ -443,7 +443,9 @@ do { \ */ struct rcu_state { struct rcu_node node[NUM_RCU_NODES]; /* Hierarchy. */ - struct rcu_node *level[RCU_NUM_LVLS]; /* Hierarchy levels. */ + struct rcu_node *level[RCU_NUM_LVLS + 1]; + /* Hierarchy levels (+1 to */ + /* shut bogus gcc warning) */ u8 flavor_mask; /* bit in flavor mask. */ struct rcu_data __percpu *rda; /* pointer of percu rcu_data. */ void (*call)(struct rcu_head *head, /* call_rcu() flavor. */