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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matt Mullins <mmullins@mmlx.us>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: violating function pointer signature
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:11:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201118191127.GM2672@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201118135823.3f0d24b7@gandalf.local.home>

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 01:58:23PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I wonder if we should define on all architectures a void void_stub(void),
> in assembly, that just does a return, an not worry about gcc messing up the
> creation of the stub function.
> 
> On x86_64:
> 
> GLOBAL(void_stub)
> 	retq
> 
> 
> And so on.

I don't see how you imagine a compiler to mess this up?

void void_stub(void) { }

will do fine?

        .globl  void_stub
        .type   void_stub, @function
void_stub:
.LFB0:
        .cfi_startproc
        ret
        .cfi_endproc
.LFE0:
        .size   void_stub, .-void_stub


Calling this via a different declared function type is undefined
behaviour, but that is independent of how the function is *defined*.
Your program can make ducks appear from your nose even if that function
is never called, if you do that.  Just don't do UB, not even once!


Segher

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-18 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-16 22:51 [PATCH] tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory allocation Steven Rostedt
2020-11-16 23:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-17 19:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-11-17 19:21   ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-17 19:47     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-11-17 20:34       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-17 20:58         ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-17 21:22           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-11-17 22:16             ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-17 23:08               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-11-18  1:11                 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-17 21:08         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-11-18 13:21         ` violating function pointer signature Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-18 13:59           ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-18 14:12             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-18 14:18               ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-18 14:34                 ` [PATCH v3] tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory allocation Steven Rostedt
2020-11-24  5:59                   ` Matt Mullins
2020-11-18 14:22             ` violating function pointer signature Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 19:46               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-18 20:02                 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 14:02           ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 16:01             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-11-18 16:19               ` David Laight
2020-11-18 16:50           ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-18 17:17             ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 18:12               ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-11-18 18:31                 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-18 18:55                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-11-18 18:58                   ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 18:59                     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 19:11                     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-11-18 19:33                       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-18 19:48                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-11-18 20:44                           ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-19  8:21                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-19  8:36                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-19 14:37                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-11-19 14:59                           ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-19 16:35                             ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-11-19 17:42                               ` David Laight
2020-11-19 19:27                                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-11-19 17:04                             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-11-19 17:30                               ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-20  1:31                               ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-11-17 21:33 ` [PATCH] tracepoint: Do not fail unregistering a probe due to memory allocation Kees Cook
2020-11-17 22:19   ` Steven Rostedt
2020-11-17 23:12     ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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