The gcc 12 compiler reports a "'mem_section' will never be NULL" warning on the following code: static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr) { #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME if (!mem_section) return NULL; #endif if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]) return NULL; : It happens with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME off. The mem_section definition is #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME extern struct mem_section **mem_section; #else extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS][SECTIONS_PER_ROOT]; #endif In the !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME case, mem_section is a static 2-dimensional array and so the check "!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]" doesn't make sense. Fix this warning by moving the "!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]" check up inside the CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME block and adding an explicit NR_SECTION_ROOTS check to make sure that there is no out-of-bound array access. Fixes: 3e347261a80b ("sparsemem extreme implementation") Reported-by: Justin Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 962b14d403e8..46ffab808f03 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -1397,13 +1397,16 @@ static inline unsigned long *section_to_usemap(struct mem_section *ms) static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr) { + unsigned long root = SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr); + + if (unlikely(root >= NR_SECTION_ROOTS)) + return NULL; + #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME - if (!mem_section) + if (!mem_section || !mem_section[root]) return NULL; #endif - if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)]) - return NULL; - return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK]; + return &mem_section[root][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK]; } extern size_t mem_section_usage_size(void); -- 2.27.0