[PATCH 4.14 52/53] gcc-9: properly declare the {pv,hv}clock_page storage

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Aug 05 2019 - 09:08:37 EST


From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 459e3a21535ae3c7a9a123650e54f5c882b8fcbf upstream.

The pvlock_page and hvclock_page variables are (as the name implies)
addresses to pages, created by the linker script.

But we declared them as just "extern u8" variables, which _works_, but
now that gcc does some more bounds checking, it causes warnings like

warning: array subscript 1 is outside array bounds of âu8[1]â

when we then access more than one byte from those variables.

Fix this by simply making the declaration of the variables match
reality, which makes the compiler happy too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ extern int __vdso_gettimeofday(struct ti
extern time_t __vdso_time(time_t *t);

#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK
-extern u8 pvclock_page
+extern u8 pvclock_page[PAGE_SIZE]
__attribute__((visibility("hidden")));
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_HYPERV_TSCPAGE
-extern u8 hvclock_page
+extern u8 hvclock_page[PAGE_SIZE]
__attribute__((visibility("hidden")));
#endif