Re: [PATCH] clk: s2mps11: initialise clk_hw_onecell_data::num before accessing ::hws[] in probe()

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Wed Mar 26 2025 - 10:14:30 EST


On 26/03/2025 13:08, André Draszik wrote:
> With UBSAN enabled, we're getting the following trace:
>
> UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in .../drivers/clk/clk-s2mps11.c:186:3
> index 0 is out of range for type 'struct clk_hw *[] __counted_by(num)' (aka 'struct clk_hw *[]')
>
> This is because commit f316cdff8d67 ("clk: Annotate struct
> clk_hw_onecell_data with __counted_by") annotated the hws member of
> that struct with __counted_by, which informs the bounds sanitizer about
> the number of elements in hws, so that it can warn when hws is accessed
> out of bounds.
>
> As noted in that change, the __counted_by member must be initialised
> with the number of elements before the first array access happens,
> otherwise there will be a warning from each access prior to the
> initialisation because the number of elements is zero. This occurs in
> s2mps11_clk_probe() due to ::num being assigned after ::hws access.
>
> Move the assignment to satisfy the requirement of assign-before-access.
>

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Krzysztof