Re: [PATCH] misc: kgdbts: silence array underflow warning

[Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 03:22:29PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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.

What warning does this fix? I'd prefer to have it in the description.


> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.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);

If go_back is out of range then this is a serious error in the test
plans found in the module. Something simple and clear such as
BUG_ON(go_back <= 0 || go_back > ts.idx) is probably sufficient.


>  	repeat_test--;
> -	if (repeat_test <= 0) {
> +	if (repeat_test <= 0 || go_back < 0) {

The BUG_ON() will mess things up because whatever breakpoints
the test is using are still enabled.

If you really want to recover cleanly then perhaps:

+	if (repeat_test <= 0 || WARN_ON(go_back < 0 || go_back > ts.idx)) {


>  		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;

Not sure about this. If we know the opcodes are bad then re-executing
them doesn't seem like a good idea (hence covering it in the WARN_ON
branch above).


Daniel.