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Re: [PATCH] - silence UBSAN complaint in ehci-hcd.

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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 05:19:00PM -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> UBSAN throws a complaint:
> 
> [    2.418579] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c:877:47
> [    2.418582] index -1 is out of range for type 'u32 [1]'
> 
> though it's only on the hostpc[] part, not  on the port_status[] on the
> previous line which has the same exact index calculation.  The root cause is
> that the first declaration is port_status[0], which uses a GCC extension and
> UBSAN is smart enough to realize the programmer is doing something
> intentionally odd.
> 
> However, the problematic declaration is hostpc[1], which doesn't have
> the "I know what I'm doing" semantics of [0].  Change the declaration to match.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
> 
> --- a/include/linux/usb/ehci_def.h	2015-01-06 01:04:24.342436706 -0500
> +++ b/include/linux/usb/ehci_def.h	2016-05-19 13:57:20.869304540 -0400
> @@ -180,11 +180,11 @@ struct ehci_regs {
>   * PORTSCx
>   */
>  	/* HOSTPC: offset 0x84 */
> -	u32		hostpc[1];	/* HOSTPC extension */
> +	u32		hostpc[0];	/* HOSTPC extension */
>  #define HOSTPC_PHCD	(1<<22)		/* Phy clock disable */
>  #define HOSTPC_PSPD	(3<<25)		/* Port speed detection */

Hm, this is odd, you really do want hostpc to be 1 u32 value, don't make
it 0 please.  If you walk off the end of hostpc, well, let's fix that
properly.

And are you sure this is needed?  Is this a different issue from the
other long thread right now that we finally got a patch for?

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH] - silence UBSAN complaint in ehci-hcd. Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> - 2016-05-20 02:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] - silence UBSAN complaint in ehci-hcd. Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-05-20 03:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] - silence UBSAN complaint in ehci-hcd. Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu - 2016-05-20 03:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] - silence UBSAN complaint in ehci-hcd. Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-05-20 16:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] - silence UBSAN complaint in ehci-hcd. Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-05-20 16:40 +0200

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