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From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] build_bug.h: remove negative-array fallback for BUILD_BUG_ON()
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:19:00 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1542349141-7229-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> (raw)

The kernel can only be compiled with an optimization option (-O2, -Os,
or the currently proposed -Og). Hence, __OPTIMIZE__ is always defined
in the kernel source.

A fallback for -O0 case is just hypothetical and pointless. Moreover,
commit 0bb95f80a38f ("Makefile: Globally enable VLA warning") enabled
-Wvla warning. The use of variable length arrays is banned.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
---

 include/linux/build_bug.h | 14 --------------
 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/build_bug.h b/include/linux/build_bug.h
index 43d1fd5..d415c64 100644
--- a/include/linux/build_bug.h
+++ b/include/linux/build_bug.h
@@ -51,23 +51,9 @@
  * If you have some code which relies on certain constants being equal, or
  * some other compile-time-evaluated condition, you should use BUILD_BUG_ON to
  * detect if someone changes it.
- *
- * The implementation uses gcc's reluctance to create a negative array, but gcc
- * (as of 4.4) only emits that error for obvious cases (e.g. not arguments to
- * inline functions).  Luckily, in 4.3 they added the "error" function
- * attribute just for this type of case.  Thus, we use a negative sized array
- * (should always create an error on gcc versions older than 4.4) and then call
- * an undefined function with the error attribute (should always create an
- * error on gcc 4.3 and later).  If for some reason, neither creates a
- * compile-time error, we'll still have a link-time error, which is harder to
- * track down.
  */
-#ifndef __OPTIMIZE__
-#define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition) ((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2*!!(condition)]))
-#else
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition) \
 	BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(condition, "BUILD_BUG_ON failed: " #condition)
-#endif
 
 /**
  * BUILD_BUG - break compile if used.
-- 
2.7.4


             reply	other threads:[~2018-11-16  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-16  6:19 Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2018-11-16  6:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] build_bug.h: remove all dummy BUILD_BUG_ON stubs for sparse Masahiro Yamada
2018-11-17 10:53   ` kbuild test robot
2018-11-19 10:37     ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-11-16 19:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] build_bug.h: remove negative-array fallback for BUILD_BUG_ON() Kees Cook
2018-11-24  8:14   ` Miguel Ojeda

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