Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] blktap2: Silence warnings under GCC 5.1.1

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:46:55AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 05.10.15 at 10:49, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On 03/10/15 19:39, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >> I get compile warnings telling me that
> >>    s->connections[i].fd == fd
> >>
> >> 'i' may be past the array. Adding in an extra condition
> >> on the loop fixes that.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> > 
> > Furthermore, I can't see any logic which prevents s->connected getting
> > larger than MAX_CONNECTIONS
> 
> Iirc Olaf had already suggested such a patch quite some time ago,
> and not having seen the point back then I also don't see the point
> now: ctl_accept() prevents ->connected from growing beyond 1,
> and there's no other place where the value could get incremented.

Thoughts on what to do about the compiler warnings which make this
compiler errors (since we compile with -Werror) and one can't
compile Xen? A different fix (make s->connected not be an array?)

> 
> Also, Konrad, regarding the subject (since this repeats from an
> earlier patch of yours) - why do you reference a specific, non-
> release version of gcc? Why not simply say 5.x? Because if the
> problem is indeed only present in a non-release version, I don't
> think we should bother working around such issues.

I just ran 'gcc --version' and that is what it spit out. Since
it is part of an official Fedora release I figured it is 'released'
in some way?

> 
> Jan
>