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| author | Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com> | 2013-02-21 16:41:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-02-21 17:22:16 -0800 |
| commit | c361d3e54364d19bb5e803d6e766e94674da7b0e (patch) | |
| tree | a0d5410b10b0733f1f3a73238f7d487fac479ad5 /include | |
| parent | a3ccc497cd17147713363a4bf975f1a269fadb6d (diff) | |
compiler.h, bug.h: prevent double error messages with BUILD_BUG{,_ON}
Prior to the introduction of __attribute__((error("msg"))) in gcc 4.3,
creating compile-time errors required a little trickery.
BUILD_BUG{,_ON} uses this attribute when available to generate
compile-time errors, but also uses the negative-sized array trick for
older compilers, resulting in two error messages in some cases. The
reason it's "some" cases is that as of gcc 4.4, the negative-sized array
will not create an error in some situations, like inline functions.
This patch replaces the negative-sized array code with the new
__compiletime_error_fallback() macro which expands to the same thing
unless the the error attribute is available, in which case it expands to
do{}while(0), resulting in exactly one compile-time error on all
versions of gcc.
Note that we are not changing the negative-sized array code for the
unoptimized version of BUILD_BUG_ON, since it has the potential to catch
problems that would be disabled in later versions of gcc were
__compiletime_error_fallback used. The reason is that that an
unoptimized build can't always remove calls to an error-attributed
function call (like we are using) that should effectively become dead
code if it were optimized. However, using a negative-sized array with a
similar value will not result in an false-positive (error). The only
caveat being that it will also fail to catch valid conditions, which we
should be expecting in an unoptimized build anyway.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/bug.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler.h | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bug.h b/include/linux/bug.h index 73af37ca472..dc11dc762fc 100644 --- a/include/linux/bug.h +++ b/include/linux/bug.h @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct pt_regs; __compiletime_error("BUILD_BUG_ON failed"); \ if (__cond) \ __build_bug_on_failed(); \ - ((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2 * __cond])); \ + __compiletime_error_fallback(__cond); \ } while (0) #endif diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 4c638be7609..423bb6bd660 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -307,7 +307,12 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect); #endif #ifndef __compiletime_error # define __compiletime_error(message) +# define __compiletime_error_fallback(condition) \ + do { ((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2*!!(condition)])); } while (0) +#else +# define __compiletime_error_fallback(condition) do { } while (0) #endif + /* * Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses. The compiler * is also forbidden from reordering successive instances of ACCESS_ONCE(), |