Re: gcc-12: build errors: arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c:225:56: warning: array subscript -1 is outside array bounds of 'char[]' [-Warray-bounds]

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Mon Jun 06 2022 - 05:01:51 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 09:40:07AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 4:03 AM Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > inlined from 'setup_arch' at arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c:350:2:
> > arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c:225:56: warning: array subscript -1 is
> > outside array bounds of 'char[]' [-Warray-bounds]
> > 225 | kernel_code.end = __pa_symbol(__init_begin - 1);
> >
>
> Is this the only warning of this type that you get for arm64?

In that function, both kernel_code.end and kernel_data_end show a
similar warning in 5.19-rc1

> I think the easy fix would be to reword this line to
>
> kernel_code.end = __pa_symbol(__init_begin) - 1;

Doing this for both fix the warnings.

Maxime

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