linux/arch
Mark Rutland d135b8b506 arm64: uaccess: suppress spurious clang warning
Clang tries to warn when there's a mismatch between an operand's size,
and the size of the register it is held in, as this may indicate a bug.
Specifically, clang warns when the operand's type is less than 64 bits
wide, and the register is used unqualified (i.e. %N rather than %xN or
%wN).

Unfortunately clang can generate these warnings for unreachable code.
For example, for code like:

do {                                            \
        typeof(*(ptr)) __v = (v);               \
        switch(sizeof(*(ptr))) {                \
        case 1:                                 \
                // assume __v is 1 byte wide    \
                asm ("{op}b %w0" : : "r" (v));  \
                break;                          \
        case 8:                                 \
                // assume __v is 8 bytes wide   \
                asm ("{op} %0" : : "r" (v));    \
                break;                          \
        }
while (0)

... if op() were passed a char value and pointer to char, clang may
produce a warning for the unreachable case where sizeof(*(ptr)) is 8.

For the same reasons, clang produces warnings when __put_user_err() is
used for types that are less than 64 bits wide.

We could avoid this with a cast to a fixed-width type in each of the
cases. However, GCC will then warn that pointer types are being cast to
mismatched integer sizes (in unreachable paths).

Another option would be to use the same union trickery as we do for
__smp_store_release() and __smp_load_acquire(), but this is fairly
invasive.

Instead, this patch suppresses the clang warning by using an x modifier
in the assembly for the 8 byte case of __put_user_err(). No additional
work is necessary as the value has been cast to typeof(*(ptr)), so the
compiler will have performed any necessary extension for the reachable
case.

For consistency, __get_user_err() is also updated to use the x modifier
for its 8 byte case.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reported-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2017-05-09 17:47:27 +01:00
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alpha sched/headers: Move task->mm handling methods to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-03 01:43:28 +01:00
arc arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-03-17 12:14:49 -07:00
arm64 arm64: uaccess: suppress spurious clang warning 2017-05-09 17:47:27 +01:00
avr32 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
blackfin sched/headers: Move task->mm handling methods to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-03 01:43:28 +01:00
c6x sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
cris Merge branch 'prep-for-5level' 2017-03-10 08:59:07 -08:00
frv arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
h8300 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
hexagon arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
ia64 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
m32r sched/headers: Move task->mm handling methods to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-03 01:43:28 +01:00
m68k sched/headers: Prepare to remove the <linux/mm_types.h> dependency from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
metag arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
microblaze arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mips arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mn10300 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
nios2 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
openrisc openrisc: Export symbols needed by modules 2017-03-16 00:12:57 +09:00
parisc parisc: Fix system shutdown halt 2017-03-18 17:27:45 +01:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.11 #5 2017-03-19 18:49:28 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-03-12 14:22:25 -07:00
score Fixup for arch/score after extable.h introduction 2017-03-11 14:16:50 -08:00
sh Merge branch 'prep-for-5level' 2017-03-10 08:59:07 -08:00
sparc arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
tile arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
um arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
unicore32 arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-17 14:05:03 -07:00
xtensa arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
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Kconfig scripts/spelling.txt: add "an user" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00