On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 10:40 +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> 2016-05-18 1:16 GMT+03:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>:
> > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 05:52:40PM -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> >> So, not content in the amount of breakage I generate already, I
> >> compiled with UBSAN enabled...
> >>
> >> The immediately relevant part:
> >>
> >> [ 2.418576]
> >> ================================================================================
> >> [ 2.418579] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in
> >> drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c:877:47
> >> [ 2.418582] index -1 is out of range for type 'u32 [1]'
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > It's a known bug in ubsan,
>
> It's not a bug. int *p = &a[-1] is undefined behavior. It doesn't
> matter whether that pointer dereferenced or not.
That is a bold statement. Pointer arithmetic is defined. How can
the computation of an address be undefined behavior while it is
not used?
Regards
Oliver
