From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] compiler_attributes.h: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo keyword for switch/case use
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 19:17:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANiq72kU2_s=58HqdN6VMGDAh_+G+dtns9xzoc4huSVwP+ZXUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79237afe056af8d81662f183491e3589922b8ddd.1570292505.git.joe@perches.com>
Hi Joe,
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 6:46 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> Reserve the pseudo keyword 'fallthrough' for the ability to convert the
> various case block /* fallthrough */ style comments to appear to be an
> actual reserved word with the same gcc case block missing fallthrough
> warning capability.
>
> All switch/case blocks now must end in one of:
>
> break;
> fallthrough;
> goto <label>;
> return [expression];
> continue;
>
> fallthough is gcc's __attribute__((__fallthrough__)) which was introduced
> in gcc version 7..
Nits: double period, missing "r" in fallthough.
> fallthrough devolves to an empty "do {} while (0)" if the compiler
> version (any version less than gcc 7) does not support the attribute.
Perhaps add a short note why (empty statement warnings maybe? I don't
remember them but it was months ago so maybe it changed).
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Please add Dan's Suggested-by and copy the things I wrote in the
commit message when I proposed this:
https://github.com/ojeda/linux/commit/668f011a2706ea555987e263f609a5deba9c7fc4
> ---
> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
> index 6b318efd8a74..cdf016596659 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler_attributes.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
> # define __GCC4_has_attribute___noclone__ 1
> # define __GCC4_has_attribute___nonstring__ 0
> # define __GCC4_has_attribute___no_sanitize_address__ (__GNUC_MINOR__ >= 8)
> +# define __GCC4_has_attribute___fallthrough__ 0
This goes after __externally_visible__.
> #endif
>
> /*
> @@ -185,6 +186,22 @@
> # define __noclone
> #endif
>
> +/*
> + * Add the pseudo keyword 'fallthrough' so case statement blocks
> + * must end with any of these keywords:
> + * break;
> + * fallthrough;
> + * goto <label>;
> + * return [expression];
> + *
> + * gcc: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Statement-Attributes.html#Statement-Attributes
This also goes after __externally_visible__.
Please add:
* Optional: only supported since gcc >= 7.1
* Optional: only supported since clang >= 10
* Optional: not supported by icc
As well as:
clang: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#fallthrough
See how I did it in the link above:
https://github.com/ojeda/linux/commit/668f011a2706ea555987e263f609a5deba9c7fc4
> + */
> +#if __has_attribute(__fallthrough__)
> +# define fallthrough __attribute__((__fallthrough__))
> +#else
> +# define fallthrough do {} while (0) /* fallthrough */
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * Note the missing underscores.
> *
> --
> 2.15.0
>
Cheers,
Miguel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-05 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-05 16:46 [PATCH 0/4] treewide: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo-keyword Joe Perches
2019-10-05 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: sctp: Rename fallthrough label to unhandled Joe Perches
2019-10-07 18:08 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-10 20:34 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-11 12:20 ` Neil Horman
2019-10-05 16:46 ` [PATCH 2/4] compiler_attributes.h: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo keyword for switch/case use Joe Perches
2019-10-05 17:17 ` Miguel Ojeda [this message]
2019-10-07 18:14 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-07 18:28 ` Joe Perches
2019-10-10 20:37 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-11 22:25 ` Miguel Ojeda
2019-10-05 16:46 ` [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/process: Add fallthrough pseudo-keyword Joe Perches
2019-10-05 17:47 ` Miguel Ojeda
2019-10-09 21:51 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-05 16:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] scripts/cvt_style.pl: Tool to reformat sources in various ways Joe Perches
2019-10-05 17:31 ` Miguel Ojeda
2019-10-06 6:35 ` Joe Perches
2019-10-10 20:39 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-10 20:48 ` Joe Perches
2019-10-09 22:37 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-11 16:29 ` [PATCH 0/4] treewide: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo-keyword Linus Torvalds
2019-10-11 17:43 ` Joe Perches
2019-10-11 17:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-12 2:14 ` Joe Perches
2019-10-11 18:01 ` Miguel Ojeda
2019-10-11 22:07 ` Kees Cook
2019-10-11 22:26 ` Miguel Ojeda
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