linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc3: usb_hcd_poll_rh_status: array subscript is above array bounds

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0811030952080.2454-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:53:02 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
cc:	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc3: usb_hcd_poll_rh_status: array subscript is above
 array bounds

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

>   CC [M]  drivers/usb/core/hcd.o
> /home/bor/src/linux-git/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c: In function âusb_hcd_poll_rh_statusâ:
> /home/bor/src/linux-git/arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:75: warning: array subscript is above array bounds
> 
> It is likely that issue is actually in string_32.h as similar errors are
> in oher places as well.

I think this is actually a compiler bug.  It certainly has nothing to
do with USB.  There was a discussion about it a month or so ago on
LKML.

Alan Stern

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