FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/sparsemem: fix 'mem_section' will never be NULL gcc 12" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From a431dbbc540532b7465eae4fc8b56a85a9fc7d17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 13:09:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm/sparsemem: fix 'mem_section' will never be NULL gcc 12
warning

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.

index 962b14d403e8..46ffab808f03 100644
@@ -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);