linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] cgroup: avoid false positive gcc-6 warning

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Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:21:06 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>,
	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] cgroup: avoid false positive gcc-6 warning

When all subsystems are disabled, gcc notices that cgroup_subsys_enabled_key
is a zero-length array and that any access to it must be out of bounds:

In file included from ../include/linux/cgroup.h:19:0,
                 from ../kernel/cgroup.c:31:
../kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_add_cftypes':
../kernel/cgroup.c:261:53: error: array subscript is above array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
  return static_key_enabled(cgroup_subsys_enabled_key[ssid]);
                            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~
../include/linux/jump_label.h:271:40: note: in definition of macro 'static_key_enabled'
  static_key_count((struct static_key *)x) > 0;    \
                                        ^

We should never call the function in this particular case, so this is
not a bug. In order to silence the warning, this adds an explicit check
for the CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT==0 case.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
v2: use 'false' as the return code instead of '0', as suggested by
the friendly kbuild test robot.

 kernel/cgroup.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 155c88470543..5f65c1002b4b 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ static int cgroup_addrm_files(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
  */
 static bool cgroup_ssid_enabled(int ssid)
 {
+	if (CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT == 0)
+		return false;
+
 	return static_key_enabled(cgroup_subsys_enabled_key[ssid]);
 }
 
-- 
2.7.0