Re: New x86 warning

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> On x86-32, this warning now appears for me in 2.6.30-rc3, and did 
> not appear in 2.6.29.
>
> drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c: In function 'acpi_tb_create_local_fadt':
> /spare/repo/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:75: warning:  
> array subscript is above array bounds

Last i checked it was a GCC bounds check bogosity. All attempts to 
work it around or annotate it sanely (without changing the assembly 
code) failed. (new ideas welcome)

The closest i came was the hacklet below to the assembly code. [with 
an intentionally corrupted patch header to make it harder to apply 
accidentally.]

The hacklet writes the fifth byte by writing two bytes from byte 
position 3.

> lspci, dmesg and .config attached.
>
> 	Jeff
>
> P.S.  It is unclear in MAINTAINERS whether x86@kernel.org should 
> be CC'd in addition to the other addresses listed, or as a 
> replacement for individual emails.

at your option. Cc:-ing maintainers directly can get faster 
treatment occasionally. Using the alias is shorter.

	Ingo

NOT-Signed-off-by-me:

+++ linux/arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static __always_inline void *__constant_
 		return to;
 	case 5:
 		*(int *)to = *(int *)from;
-		*((char *)to + 4) = *((char *)from + 4);
+		*((short *)(char *)(to + 3)) = *((short *)(char *)(from + 3));
 		return to;
 	case 6:
 		*(int *)to = *(int *)from;