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

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 19 May 2016, 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@xxxxxx>
> 
> --- 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 */
>  
> -	u32		reserved5[16];
> +	u32		reserved5[17];
>  
>  	/* USBMODE_EX: offset 0xc8 */
>  	u32		usbmode_ex;	/* USB Device mode extension */

Is this problem still present with my latest patch 
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=146368979514228&w=2)?

I agree that this is a reasonable change to make in any case.

Alan Stern