[PATCH] sparse/dissect: fix parsing of array designated initializers

Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Sun, 10 May 2026 17:06:38 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-sparse
Message-ID <[email protected]>
dissect.c fails to parse nested designated initializers that contain array
indices. In this case do_initializer() is called recursively with type ==
EXPR_INDEX, this later calls do_expression(EXPR_IDENTIFIER).

Change the "while (m_expr->type == EXPR_IDENTIFIER)" loop to unwrap the
EXPR_INDEX expressions as well.

Minimal test-case:

	struct O {
		struct I { int mem; } ary[1];
	} v = {
		.ary[0].mem = 0,
	};

Before the patch:

    $ ./test-dissect TEST.c
    1:8                    def  s O
    2:16                   def  s I
    2:24                   def  m I.mem                              int
    2:31                   def  m O.ary                              struct I [1]
    3:3                    def  v v                                  struct O
    3:3                    -w-  v v                                  struct O
    4:10  v                -w-  m O.ary                              struct I [1]
    TEST.c:4:17: warning: bad expr->type: 25

the warning comes from do_expression(), 25 is EXPR_IDENTIFIER.
The usage of I.mem is not reported.

After the patch:

    $ ./test-dissect TEST.c
    1:8                    def  s O
    2:16                   def  s I
    2:24                   def  m I.mem                              int
    2:31                   def  m O.ary                              struct I [1]
    3:3                    def  v v                                  struct O
    3:3                    -w-  v v                                  struct O
    4:10  v                -w-  m O.ary                              struct I [1]
    4:17  v                -w-  m I.mem                              int

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
---
 dissect.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dissect.c b/dissect.c
index da1b63c8..796b6e4d 100644
--- a/dissect.c
+++ b/dissect.c
@@ -602,6 +602,11 @@ static struct symbol *do_initializer(struct symbol *type, struct expression *exp
 							lookup_member(m_type, m_expr->expr_ident, m_atop));
 					m_expr = m_expr->ident_expression;
 					m_atop = NULL;
+
+					while (m_expr->type == EXPR_INDEX) {
+						m_type = base_type(m_type);
+						m_expr = m_expr->idx_expression;
+					}
 				}
 
 				if (m_atop) {
-- 
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