Re: [PATCH] ioatdma: Fix compiler warning

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Tue Aug 06 2013 - 17:52:59 EST


On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 14:36 -0700, Jon Mason wrote:
> GCC v4.6.3 complains:
> drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c: In function â__ioat3_prep_pq16_lockâ:
> drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c:264:11: warning: array subscript is below array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
> drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c:264:11: warning: array subscript is below array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
>
> This is due to the possibility of idx being negative, thus being outside
> the boulds of the array. Correct this by making idx an unsigned int.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@xxxxxxxxx>

I tried to silence these warnings in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/17/233 . And again, after some feedback, in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/20/137 . Perhaps that second patch is
queued somewhere. I don't know.


Paul Bolle

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