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A forgotten or buggy variable initialization can cause out-of-bounds access to a register or other item array field. For an overflow, such access would mangle adjacent parts of the register payload. For an underflow, due to all variables being unsigned, the access would likely trample unrelated memory. Since neither is correct, replace these accesses with accesses at the index of 0, and warn about the issue. Suggested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b988fb265c2f6c1206fe12d5bfdcfa188b7672d1.1720447210.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.