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From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>,
	Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH] mfd: lpc_ich: Fix ARRAY_SIZE usage for apl_gpio_resources
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 13:07:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250501120725.GJ1567507@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aAqKcn25bkrjIiLF@black.fi.intel.com>

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 02:13:08PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:48:41 +0530, Purva Yeshi wrote:
> > > Fix warning detected by smatch tool:
> > > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:194:34: error: strange non-value function or array
> > > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:194:34: error: missing type information
> > > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:201:34: error: strange non-value function or array
> > > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:201:34: error: missing type information
> > > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:208:34: error: strange non-value function or array
> > > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:208:34: error: missing type information
> > > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:215:34: error: strange non-value function or array
> > > drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c:215:34: error: missing type information
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Applied, thanks!
> > 
> > [1/1] mfd: lpc_ich: Fix ARRAY_SIZE usage for apl_gpio_resources
> >       commit: 87e172b0fdd3aa4e3d099884e608dbc70ee3e663
> 
> Can this be reverted ASAP, please? See below why.
> 
> There is no problem with the code. The original author of the change
> haven't proved otherwise.
> 
> The change made it much worse to read and maintain. By the way, it actually
> _added_ the problem as far as I can see with my small test program.
> 
> Let's just calculate based on the sizeof(struct foo) taken as 10 for
> simplicity and array size as 4x2. The full size of the array is
> 4 * 2 * 10 bytes. The size of the entry in outer array will be 2 * 10 bytes.
> Now, what ARRAY2D_SIZE do is (4 * 2 * 10 / 10 / (2 * 10 / 10) == 4, and
> that's WRONG! This will make a out-of-boundary accesses possible.
> 
> If smatch can't parse something, it's problem of smatch. No need to "fix"
> the working and robust code. The original code even allows (in theory) to have
> different amount of resources per entry, however it's quite unlikely to happen.
> But at bare minimum it shows the entry taken along with _its_ ARRAY_SIZE()
> and not something common over the outer array.

Done.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]

  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-01 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-22 13:18 [PATCH] mfd: lpc_ich: Fix ARRAY_SIZE usage for apl_gpio_resources Purva Yeshi
2025-04-04 13:13 ` (subset) " Lee Jones
2025-04-24 19:01   ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-05-01 12:07     ` Lee Jones [this message]
2025-05-02  4:35       ` Andy Shevchenko
2025-05-02  7:27         ` Lee Jones
2025-05-02  9:01           ` Andy Shevchenko

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