linux-kernel - Re: mainline build failure due to 5d8c3e836fc2 ("drm/amd/display: fix array-bounds error in dc_stream_remove

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Date:   Thu, 6 Oct 2022 16:48:13 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Hamza Mahfooz <hamza.mahfooz@....com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>,
        Leo Li <sunpeng.li@....com>,
        Rodrigo Siqueira <Rodrigo.Siqueira@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@....com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mainline build failure due to 5d8c3e836fc2 ("drm/amd/display: fix
 array-bounds error in dc_stream_remove_writeback()")

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:50 PM Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > And it looks like Sudip's proposed fix for this particular code is
> > additionally fixing unsigned vs signed as well. I think -Warray-bounds
> > did its job (though, with quite a confusing index range in the report).
>
> Not my. Linus's. I just tested. :)

I suspect Kees meant Stephen's other patch that Hamza pointed at, and
that is perhaps the cleaner version.

That said, I hate how this forces us to write random code changes just
to make a compiler just randomly _happen_ to not complain about it.

                   Linus