linux-kernel - [PATCH] misc: kgdbts: silence array underflow warning

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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 15:22:29 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Cc:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] misc: kgdbts: silence array underflow warning

Smatch distrusts simple_strtol().  I don't know the code well enough
to say if the distrust is justified here, but it seems harmless to
silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c b/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
index 6193270e7b3d..e0508acaedaa 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/kgdbts.c
@@ -400,13 +400,15 @@ static void skip_back_repeat_test(char *arg)
 	int go_back = simple_strtol(arg, NULL, 10);
 
 	repeat_test--;
-	if (repeat_test <= 0) {
+	if (repeat_test <= 0 || go_back < 0) {
 		ts.idx++;
 	} else {
 		if (repeat_test % 100 == 0)
 			v1printk("kgdbts:RUN ... %d remaining\n", repeat_test);
 
 		ts.idx -= go_back;
+		if (ts.idx < 0)
+			ts.idx = 0;
 	}
 	fill_get_buf(ts.tst[ts.idx].get);
 }