netdev - Re: [PATCH] phy: fix compiler array bounds warning on settings[]

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Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:07:55 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhelgaas@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: fix compiler array bounds warning on settings[]

From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:35:44 -0700

> With -Werror=array-bounds, gcc v4.7.x warns that in phy_find_valid(), the
> settings[] "array subscript is above array bounds", I think because idx is
> a signed integer and if the caller supplied idx < 0, we pass the guard but
> still reference out of bounds.
> 
> Fix this by making idx unsigned here and elsewhere.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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