linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ioatdma: silence GCC warnings

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Message-ID: <1374507997.43171.7.camel@djiang5-linux2.ch.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:46:36 +0000
From:	"Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
CC:	Dan Williams <djbw@...com>, "Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ioatdma: silence GCC warnings

On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 20:05 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Building dma_v3.o triggers a GCC warning:
>     drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c: In function ‘__ioat3_prep_pq16_lock’:
>     drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c:264:11: warning: array subscript is below array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
>     drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c:264:11: warning: array subscript is below array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
> 
> This warning is caused by pq16_set_src(). It uses "int idx" as an index
> to an eight element array. Changing "idx" to "unsigned" silences this
> warning. Apparently GCC can then determine that "idx" will never be
> negative.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>

Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>

> ---
> 0) v2: cut back to a one hunk change, as Dan suggested.
> 
> 1) Still just compile tested.
> 
>  drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c
> index b642e03..2bb4601 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c
> @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ static bool is_bwd_noraid(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>  }
>  
>  static void pq16_set_src(struct ioat_raw_descriptor *desc[3],
> -			dma_addr_t addr, u32 offset, u8 coef, int idx)
> +			dma_addr_t addr, u32 offset, u8 coef, unsigned idx)
>  {
>  	struct ioat_pq_descriptor *pq = (struct ioat_pq_descriptor *)desc[0];
>  	struct ioat_pq16a_descriptor *pq16 =