kernel/linux.git/include/linux/compiler.h, branch v6.6.132

minmax: improve macro expansion and type checking

2025-10-02T11:42:55+00:00

[ Upstream commit 22f5468731491e53356ba7c028f0fdea20b18e2c ] This clarifies the rules for min()/max()/clamp() type checking and makes them a much more efficient macro expansion. In particular, we now look at the type and range of the inputs to see whether they work together, generating a mask of acceptable comparisons, and then just verifying that the inputs have a shared case: - an expression with a signed type can be used for (1) signed comparisons (2) unsigned comparisons if it is statically known to have a non-negative value - an expression with an unsigned type can be used for (3) unsigned comparison (4) signed comparisons if the type is smaller than 'int' and thus the C integer promotion rules will make it signed anyway Here rule (1) and (3) are obvious, and rule (2) is important in order to allow obvious trivial constants to be used together with unsigned values. Rule (4) is not necessarily a good idea, but matches what we used to do, and we have extant cases of this situation in the kernel. Notably with bcachefs having an expression like min(bch2_bucket_sectors_dirty(a), ca->mi.bucket_size) where bch2_bucket_sectors_dirty() returns an 's64', and 'ca->mi.bucket_size' is of type 'u16'. Technically that bcachefs comparison is clearly sensible on a C type level, because the 'u16' will go through the normal C integer promotion, and become 'int', and then we're comparing two signed values and everything looks sane. However, it's not entirely clear that a 'min(s64,u16)' operation makes a lot of conceptual sense, and it's possible that we will remove rule (4). After all, the _reason_ we have these complicated type checks is exactly that the C type promotion rules are not very intuitive. But at least for now the rule is in place for backwards compatibility. Also note that rule (2) existed before, but is hugely relaxed by this commit. It used to be true only for the simplest compile-time non-negative integer constants. The new macro model will allow cases where the compiler can trivially see that an expression is non-negative even if it isn't necessarily a constant. For example, the amdgpu driver does min_t(size_t, sizeof(fru_info->serial), pia[addr] & 0x3F)); because our old 'min()' macro would see that 'pia[addr] & 0x3F' is of type 'int' and clearly not a C constant expression, so doing a 'min()' with a 'size_t' is a signedness violation. Our new 'min()' macro still sees that 'pia[addr] & 0x3F' is of type 'int', but is smart enough to also see that it is clearly non-negative, and thus would allow that case without any complaints. Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: David Laight Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

compiler: remove __ADDRESSABLE_ASM{_STR,}() again

2025-08-28T14:28:46+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8ea815399c3fcce1889bd951fec25b5b9a3979c1 ] __ADDRESSABLE_ASM_STR() is where the necessary stringification happens. As long as "sym" doesn't contain any odd characters, no quoting is required for its use with .quad / .long. In fact the quotation gets in the way with gas 2.25; it's only from 2.26 onwards that quoted symbols are half-way properly supported. However, assembly being different from C anyway, drop __ADDRESSABLE_ASM_STR() and its helper macro altogether. A simple .global directive will suffice to get the symbol "declared", i.e. into the symbol table. While there also stop open-coding STATIC_CALL_TRAMP() and STATIC_CALL_KEY(). Fixes: 0ef8047b737d ("x86/static-call: provide a way to do very early static-call updates") Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <609d2c74-de13-4fae-ab1a-1ec44afb948d@suse.com> [ Adjust context ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/static-call: provide a way to do very early static-call updates

2024-12-19T17:11:36+00:00

commit 0ef8047b737d7480a5d4c46d956e97c190f13050 upstream. Add static_call_update_early() for updating static-call targets in very early boot. This will be needed for support of Xen guest type specific hypercall functions. This is part of XSA-466 / CVE-2024-53241. Reported-by: Andrew Cooper Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra Co-developed-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: make ftrace_likely_update() declaration visible

2023-05-17T16:36:46+00:00

This function is only used when CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING is set and DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING is not set, and the declaration is hidden behind this combination of tests. But that causes a warning when building with CONFIG_TRACING_BRANCHES, since that sets DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING for the tracing code, and the declaration is thus hidden: kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:205:6: error: no previous prototype for 'ftrace_likely_update' [-Werror=missing-prototypes] Move the declaration out of the #ifdef to avoid the warning. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

overflow: Introduce overflows_type() and castable_to_type()

2022-11-02T19:39:27+00:00

Implement a robust overflows_type() macro to test if a variable or constant value would overflow another variable or type. This can be used as a constant expression for static_assert() (which requires a constant expression[1][2]) when used on constant values. This must be constructed manually, since __builtin_add_overflow() does not produce a constant expression[3]. Additionally adds castable_to_type(), similar to __same_type(), but for checking if a constant value would overflow if cast to a given type. Add unit tests for overflows_type(), __same_type(), and castable_to_type() to the existing KUnit "overflow" test: [16:03:33] ================== overflow (21 subtests) ================== ... [16:03:33] [PASSED] overflows_type_test [16:03:33] [PASSED] same_type_test [16:03:33] [PASSED] castable_to_type_test [16:03:33] ==================== [PASSED] overflow ===================== [16:03:33] ============================================================ [16:03:33] Testing complete. Ran 21 tests: passed: 21 [16:03:33] Elapsed time: 24.022s total, 0.002s configuring, 22.598s building, 0.767s running [1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/_Static_assert [2] C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): 6.7.10 Static assertions [3] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Integer-Overflow-Builtins.html 6.56 Built-in Functions to Perform Arithmetic with Overflow Checking Built-in Function: bool __builtin_add_overflow (type1 a, type2 b, Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Tom Rix Cc: Daniel Latypov Cc: Vitor Massaru Iha Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev Co-developed-by: Gwan-gyeong Mun Signed-off-by: Gwan-gyeong Mun Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221024201125.1416422-1-gwan-gyeong.mun@intel.com

treewide: Drop function_nocfi

2022-09-26T17:13:14+00:00

With -fsanitize=kcfi, we no longer need function_nocfi() as the compiler won't change function references to point to a jump table. Remove all implementations and uses of the macro. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-14-samitolvanen@google.com

cfi: Drop __CFI_ADDRESSABLE

2022-09-26T17:13:13+00:00

The __CFI_ADDRESSABLE macro is used for init_module and cleanup_module to ensure we have the address of the CFI jump table, and with CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT to ensure LTO won't optimize away the symbols. As __CFI_ADDRESSABLE is no longer necessary with -fsanitize=kcfi, add a more flexible version of the __ADDRESSABLE macro and always ensure these symbols won't be dropped. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-5-samitolvanen@google.com

tracing: Define the is_signed_type() macro once

2022-08-29T20:29:40+00:00

There are two definitions of the is_signed_type() macro: one in and a second definition in . As suggested by Linus, move the definition of the is_signed_type() macro into the header file. Change the definition of the is_signed_type() macro to make sure that it does not trigger any sparse warnings with future versions of sparse for bitwise types. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whjH6p+qzwUdx5SOVVHjS3WvzJQr6mDUwhEyTf6pJWzaQ@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjQGnVfb4jehFR0XyZikdQvCZouE96xR_nnf5kqaM5qqQ@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

objtool: Add CONFIG_OBJTOOL

2022-04-22T10:32:03+00:00

Now that stack validation is an optional feature of objtool, add CONFIG_OBJTOOL and replace most usages of CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION with it. CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION can now be considered to be frame-pointer specific. CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC is already inherently valid for live patching, so no need to "validate" it. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/939bf3d85604b2a126412bf11af6e3bd3b872bcb.1650300597.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

x86,objtool: Move the ASM_REACHABLE annotation to objtool.h

2022-03-15T09:32:45+00:00

Because we need a variant for .S files too. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yi9gOW9f1GGwwUD6@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net