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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Guenter Roeck' <linux@roeck-us.net>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] sparc: mdesc: Fix compile error seen with gcc 11.x
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:38:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d50a68b4c2c54b7b9440cbef7fcdc642@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210914224709.601156-1-linux@roeck-us.net>
From: Guenter Roeck
> Sent: 14 September 2021 23:47
...
> I am not sure if there was agreement to accept this patch or not, but
> I was asked to resend it with the above change, so here it is. An open
> question was if it is acceptable to have a structure named xxx_hdr
> include an element pointing to the data following that header.
It may be a pragmatic solution to the problem.
But it isn't 'correct'.
OTOH I think gcc is broken.
It ought to at least give a sane method of getting the warning
ignored in specific cases.
> If this patch is not acceptable, the patch in buildbot may be a possible
> alternative to consider.
> https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/commit/?id=6e1106b4a9aee25d1556310d5cd1cb6dde2e6e3f
>
> arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
> index 8e645ddac58e..83e1f699bc32 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct mdesc_hdr {
> u32 node_sz; /* node block size */
> u32 name_sz; /* name block size */
> u32 data_sz; /* data block size */
> + char data[];
> } __attribute__((aligned(16)));
>
> struct mdesc_elem {
> @@ -612,7 +613,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdesc_get_node_info);
>
> static struct mdesc_elem *node_block(struct mdesc_hdr *mdesc)
> {
> - return (struct mdesc_elem *) (mdesc + 1);
> + return (struct mdesc_elem *) (mdesc->data);
> }
In order for gcc to consider (mdesc + 1) to have size 0
I think it must have tracked the pointer from a structure
that has another field (or structure end) following 'mdesc'.
If that is the case then it should also know that the data[]
must also be size 0.
So the warning may reappear with the next gcc version.
The busybox patch has:
+@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ struct mdesc_handle {
+ refcount_t refcnt;
+ unsigned int handle_size;
+ struct mdesc_hdr mdesc;
++ char data[];
+ };
Which really ought to be more than enough.
Although the extra space could be considered to even be
outside that structure.
But the gcc folks suggested a completely brain-dead change
that requires taking the offset from the outer structure.
-- return (struct mdesc_elem *) (mdesc + 1);
++ return (struct mdesc_elem *) hp + offsetof(struct mdesc_handle, data);
which is probably missing a (char *) cast.
I wonder if it might be better to 'launder' the pointer
so that gcc can't track its size.
It may be that:
return (struct mdesc_elem *)(ulong)(mdesc + 1);
is enough.
Otherwise it will need to be passed into an asm block.
But gcc is getting stupid for system programming.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-14 22:47 Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15 8:38 ` David Laight [this message]
2021-09-15 14:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
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