Clang warnings in net/phonet

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Mon Jan 07 2019 - 21:54:27 EST


Hi all,

When building the kernel with Clang, this warning comes up in net/phonet.

net/phonet/pep.c:224:16: warning: array index 1 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds]
ph->data[0] = oph->data[1]; /* CTRL id */
^ ~
include/net/phonet/pep.h:66:3: note: array 'data' declared here
u8 data[1];
^
net/phonet/pep.c:281:10: warning: array index 1 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds]
switch (hdr->data[1]) {
^ ~
include/net/phonet/pep.h:66:3: note: array 'data' declared here
u8 data[1];
^
net/phonet/pep.c:285:12: warning: array index 4 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds]
switch (hdr->data[4]) {
^ ~
include/net/phonet/pep.h:66:3: note: array 'data' declared here
u8 data[1];
^
net/phonet/pep.c:295:8: warning: array index 4 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds]
if (hdr->data[4] == PEP_IND_READY)
^ ~
include/net/phonet/pep.h:66:3: note: array 'data' declared here
u8 data[1];
^
net/phonet/pep.c:304:21: warning: array index 4 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds]
atomic_add(wake = hdr->data[4], &pn->tx_credits);
^ ~
include/net/phonet/pep.h:66:3: note: array 'data' declared here
u8 data[1];
^
net/phonet/pep.c:509:9: warning: array index 4 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds]
n_sb = hdr->data[4];
^ ~
include/net/phonet/pep.h:66:3: note: array 'data' declared here
u8 data[1];
^
net/phonet/pep.c:817:14: warning: array index 1 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds]
peer_type = hdr->other_pep_type << 8;
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/net/phonet/pep.h:66:3: note: array 'data' declared here
u8 data[1];
^
net/phonet/pep.c:820:9: warning: array index 4 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds]
n_sb = hdr->data[4];
^ ~
include/net/phonet/pep.h:66:3: note: array 'data' declared here
u8 data[1];
^
8 warnings generated.

I have taken a look at the effected code but I can't really figure out
the proper fix for this warning (my knowledge of C just isn't there
yet). Nick had suggested changing 'u8 data[1]' to 'u8 *data' in
'struct pnpipehdr', which seems logical but I can't say for sure. Any
advice would be appreciated :)

Thanks,
Nathan