From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:10:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190124081024.GA1108@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJUxHtFq0rBJ9FwzMcZDWnusPUauC_=MaOz7H0_PF25jQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 07:55:51AM +1300, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 4:44 AM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Edwin Zimmerman <edwin@211mainstreet.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:03:47AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > >> >> Variables declared in a switch statement before any case statements
> > >> >> cannot be initialized, so move all instances out of the switches.
> > >> >> After this, future always-initialized stack variables will work
> > >> >> and not throw warnings like this:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> fs/fcntl.c: In function ‘send_sigio_to_task’:
> > >> >> fs/fcntl.c:738:13: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
> > >> >> siginfo_t si;
> > >> >> ^~
> > >> >
> > >> > That's a pain, so this means we can't have any new variables in { }
> > >> > scope except for at the top of a function?
>
> Just in case this wasn't clear: no, it's just the switch statement
> before the first "case". I cannot imagine how bad it would be if we
> couldn't have block-scoped variables! Heh. :)
Sorry, it was not clear at first glance. So no more objection from me
for this change.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-24 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 11:03 [PATCH 0/3] gcc-plugins: Introduce stackinit plugin Kees Cook
2019-01-23 11:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] treewide: Lift switch variables out of switches Kees Cook
2019-01-23 11:58 ` Greg KH
2019-01-23 12:09 ` Jann Horn
2019-01-23 12:12 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-01-23 13:21 ` William Kucharski
2019-01-23 14:17 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jani Nikula
2019-01-23 14:23 ` Jani Nikula
2019-01-23 14:47 ` Edwin Zimmerman
2019-01-23 15:46 ` Jani Nikula
2019-01-23 18:55 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-24 8:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-01-23 19:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-23 20:36 ` Kees Cook
2019-01-23 16:51 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jeff Kirsher
2019-01-24 12:58 ` Edwin Zimmerman
2019-01-23 11:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] gcc-plugins: Introduce stackinit plugin Kees Cook
2019-01-23 11:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] lib: Introduce test_stackinit module Kees Cook
2019-01-29 0:12 ` [PATCH 0/3] gcc-plugins: Introduce stackinit plugin Alexander Popov
2019-02-12 17:54 ` Kees Cook
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