Re: [tip:x86/cpu 2/3] arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:96:10: warning: Undefined behaviour, pointer arithmetic 'x86nops+10' is out of bounds.

[Borislav Petkov]

Yet another useless report!

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:50:10AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/cpu
> head:   301cddc21a157a3072d789a3097857202e550a24
> commit: a89dfde3dc3c2dbf56910af75e2d8b11ec5308f6 [2/3] x86: Remove dynamic NOP selection
> compiler: gcc-9 (Debian 9.3.0-22) 9.3.0
> 
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> cppcheck possible warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>, may not real problems)

What's cppcheck?

That?

Description-en: tool for static C/C++ code analysis (CLI)
 Cppcheck is a command-line tool that tries to detect bugs that your


> >> arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:96:10: warning: Undefined behaviour, pointer arithmetic 'x86nops+10' is out of bounds. [pointerOutOfBounds]
>     x86nops + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4,
>             ^
>    arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:97:10: warning: Undefined behaviour, pointer arithmetic 'x86nops+15' is out of bounds. [pointerOutOfBounds]
>     x86nops + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5,
>             ^
>    arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:98:10: warning: Undefined behaviour, pointer arithmetic 'x86nops+21' is out of bounds. [pointerOutOfBounds]
>     x86nops + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6,
>             ^
>    arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:99:10: warning: Undefined behaviour, pointer arithmetic 'x86nops+28' is out of bounds. [pointerOutOfBounds]
>     x86nops + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7,
>             ^
> >> arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c:304:7: warning: union member 'ftrace_op_code_union::code' is never used. [unusedStructMember]
>     char code[OP_REF_SIZE];
>          ^

How do you trigger this?

/me ignores it until there's some info on how those things can be
reproduced.

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    Boris.

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