[PATCH][next] carl9170: Fix multiple -Warray-bounds warnings

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Fri Mar 17 2023 - 13:30:26 EST


GCC (and Clang)[1] does not like having a partially allocated object,
since it cannot reason about it for bounds checking. Instead, fully
allocate struct carl9170_cmd.

Fix the following warnings Seen under GCC 13:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:125:30: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[4]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:126:30: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[4]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:125:30: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[20]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:126:30: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[20]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:161:12: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[20]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:162:12: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[20]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:163:12: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[20]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:164:12: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[20]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:125:30: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[8]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:126:30: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[8]’ [-Warray-bounds=]
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c:220:12: warning: array subscript ‘struct carl9170_cmd[0]’ is partly outside array bounds of ‘unsigned char[8]’ [-Warray-bounds=]

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/268
Link: godbolt.org/z/KP97sxh3T [1]
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c
index f2b4f537e4c1..b8ed193c0195 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/cmd.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ struct carl9170_cmd *carl9170_cmd_buf(struct ar9170 *ar,
{
struct carl9170_cmd *tmp;

- tmp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct carl9170_cmd_head) + len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ tmp = kzalloc(sizeof(*tmp), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (tmp) {
tmp->hdr.cmd = cmd;
tmp->hdr.len = len;
--
2.34.1