From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
To: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>,
Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>,
Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: clang: Disable 'address-of-packed-member' warning
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 15:31:30 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNATPrCDCkjU697BjUD7g_kYGf6jRLuuh59SgapfJOb6Hjw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170508231850.GG128305@google.com>
Hi Matthias,
Sorry for my late reply.
2017-05-09 8:18 GMT+09:00 Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>:
> Hi Masahiro,
>
> El Sun, May 07, 2017 at 01:52:25AM +0900 Masahiro Yamada ha dit:
>
>> 2017-05-02 10:23 GMT+09:00 Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>:
>> > Hi Masahiro,
>> >
>> > El Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:59:52PM +0900 Masahiro Yamada ha dit:
>> >
>> >> 2017-04-22 6:39 GMT+09:00 Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>:
>> >> > clang generates plenty of these warnings in different parts of the code,
>> >> > to an extent that the warnings are little more than noise. Disable the
>> >> > 'address-of-packed-member' warning.
>> >> >
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> As far as I compiled arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig,
>> >> all address-of-packed-member warnings came from the single point:
>> >>
>> >> ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:534:30: warning: taking address of
>> >> packed member 'sp0' of class or structure 'x86_hw_tss' may result in
>> >> an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
>> >> return this_cpu_read_stable(cpu_tss.x86_tss.sp0);
>> >> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >> ./arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:391:59: note: expanded from macro
>> >> 'this_cpu_read_stable'
>> >> #define this_cpu_read_stable(var) percpu_stable_op("mov", var)
>> >> ^~~
>> >> ./arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:228:16: note: expanded from macro
>> >> 'percpu_stable_op'
>> >> : "p" (&(var))); \
>> >> ^~~
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> For this case, I was able to fix it with the following patch:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
>> >> index 9fa0360..de25d1c 100644
>> >> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
>> >> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
>> >> @@ -211,26 +211,27 @@ do {
>> >> \
>> >> #define percpu_stable_op(op, var) \
>> >> ({ \
>> >> typeof(var) pfo_ret__; \
>> >> + void *__p = &(var); \
>> >> switch (sizeof(var)) { \
>> >> case 1: \
>> >> asm(op "b "__percpu_arg(P1)",%0" \
>> >> : "=q" (pfo_ret__) \
>> >> - : "p" (&(var))); \
>> >> + : "p" (__p)); \
>> >> break; \
>> >> case 2: \
>> >> asm(op "w "__percpu_arg(P1)",%0" \
>> >> : "=r" (pfo_ret__) \
>> >> - : "p" (&(var))); \
>> >> + : "p" (__p)); \
>> >> break; \
>> >> case 4: \
>> >> asm(op "l "__percpu_arg(P1)",%0" \
>> >> : "=r" (pfo_ret__) \
>> >> - : "p" (&(var))); \
>> >> + : "p" (__p)); \
>> >> break; \
>> >> case 8: \
>> >> asm(op "q "__percpu_arg(P1)",%0" \
>> >> : "=r" (pfo_ret__) \
>> >> - : "p" (&(var))); \
>> >> + : "p" (__p)); \
>> >> break; \
>> >> default: __bad_percpu_size(); \
>> >> } \
>> >
>> > Thanks for having a look!
>> >
>> > It is odd though that you only see warnings from that origin, I
>> > encounter plenty of others with x86_64_defconfig, mostly stemming
>> > from uaccess macros:
>> >
>> > kernel/power/user.c:439:35: warning: taking address of packed member
>> > 'dev' of class or structure 'compat_resume_swap_area' may result in an
>> > unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
>> > err |= get_user(swap_area.dev, &u_swap_area->dev);
>> > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> > ./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:168:23: note: expanded from macro 'get_user'
>> > register __inttype(*(ptr)) __val_gu asm("%"_ASM_DX); \
>> > ^~~
>> > ./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:132:41: note: expanded from macro '__inttype'
>> > __typeof__(__builtin_choose_expr(sizeof(x) > sizeof(0UL), 0ULL, 0UL))
>> > ^
>> >
>> > I looked into fixing different cases, but didn't see a clear path
>> > forward since we can't just cast the type away as in your patch above.
>>
>>
>> Curious.
>> I tested clang 3.0 thru 4.0, but I could not reproduce this.
>>
>> This part just calculates sizeof(*(ptr)).
>> I think it is a false positive warning bug if clang reports this.
>
> The instance above is indeed somewhat doubtful, in any case there are
> plenty of others, most of them from fs/compat.c using __get/put_user_xyz():
>
> fs/compat.c:366:33: warning: taking address of packed member 'l_whence' of class or structure 'compat_flock64' may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
> __get_user(kfl->l_whence, &ufl->l_whence) ||
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:505:27: note: expanded from macro '__get_user'
> __get_user_nocheck((x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr)))
> ^~~
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:436:29: note: expanded from macro '__get_user_nocheck'
> __get_user_size(__gu_val, (ptr), (size), __gu_err, -EFAULT); \
> ^~~
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:361:21: note: expanded from macro '__get_user_size'
> __get_user_asm(x, ptr, retval, "w", "w", "=r", errret); \
> ^~~
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:385:19: note: expanded from macro '__get_user_asm'
> : "m" (__m(addr)), "i" (errret), "0" (err))
> ^~~~
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:444:51: note: expanded from macro '__m'
> #define __m(x) (*(struct __large_struct __user *)(x))
> ^
>
> The clang version I use is fairly recent since it includes some
> fixes needed to build a working kernel (mostly for ARM64).
>
> clang --version
> Chromium OS 5.0_pre300080-r1 clang version 5.0.0
>
> Cheers
>
> Matthias
OK. I understood it is difficult to eliminate these warnings.
I consider this series for v4.13 (unless somebody comes up with a
better solution).
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-16 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-21 21:39 [PATCH 0/2] kbuild: clang: Disable spurious warnings Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-21 21:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] kbuild: clang: Disable 'address-of-packed-member' warning Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-30 13:59 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-05-02 1:23 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-05-06 16:52 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-05-08 23:18 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-05-16 6:31 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2017-05-16 21:32 ` Doug Anderson
2017-06-22 1:19 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-04-21 21:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: clang: Disable the 'duplicate-decl-specifier' warning Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-04-30 14:01 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-05-04 19:50 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-05-08 8:29 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-05-16 21:41 ` Doug Anderson
2017-05-17 7:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-05-17 18:45 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-05-24 0:04 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-05-24 8:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-21 9:11 ` Masahiro Yamada
2017-06-21 10:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-21 16:58 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-06-21 17:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2017-06-21 21:19 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-07-31 16:35 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
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