Re: [PATCH v2] include/uapi/linux/swab.h: move explicit cast outside ternary

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Jun 08 2022 - 17:17:08 EST


On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 1:09 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:14:22 -0700 Justin Stitt <jstitt007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > A cast inside __builtin_constant_p doesn't do anything since it should evaluate
> > as constant at compile time irrespective of this cast. Instead, I moved this
> > cast outside the ternary to ensure the return type is as expected.
> >
> > For instance, if __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__ was not defined then __swab16 is
> > actually returning an `int` not a `u16` due to integer promotion as described
> > by Nick in this thread. This has repercussions when building with clang
> > -Wformat. This fix should solve many of these warnings.
> >
>
> ARM allmodconfig:
>
> In file included from ./include/linux/swab.h:5,
> from ./arch/arm/include/asm/opcodes.h:86,
> from ./arch/arm/include/asm/bug.h:7,
> from ./include/linux/bug.h:5,
> from ./include/linux/mmdebug.h:5,
> from ./include/linux/gfp.h:5,
> from ./include/linux/slab.h:15,
> from ./fs/xfs/kmem.h:9,
> from ./fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h:24,
> from ./fs/xfs/xfs.h:22,
> from fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c:6:
> fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c: In function 'xchk_superblock':
> ./include/uapi/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:42:52: error: unsigned conversion from 'int' to 'short unsigned int' changes value from '-49265' to '16271' [-Werror=overflow]
> 42 | #define __cpu_to_be16(x) ((__force __be16)__swab16((x)))
> | ^~~
> ./include/uapi/linux/swab.h:102:46: note: in definition of macro '__swab16'
> 102 | #define __swab16(x) (__u16)__builtin_bswap16(x)
> | ^
> ./include/linux/byteorder/generic.h:96:21: note: in expansion of macro '__cpu_to_be16'
> 96 | #define cpu_to_be16 __cpu_to_be16
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.c:158:23: note: in expansion of macro 'cpu_to_be16'
> 158 | vernum_mask = cpu_to_be16(~XFS_SB_VERSION_OKBITS |
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:249: fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:466: fs/xfs] Error 2
> make: *** [Makefile:1839: fs] Error 2
>

Ah, I see what went wrong.

Justin added more than I requested.
Compare the diffstat between:
https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/CAKwvOd=-NXR5HoHwwEUZMsCt90oaADH6XHifje9n-8S8rj9SFw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
with the v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/20220608001422.26383-1-jstitt007@xxxxxxxxx/

Justin, please send a v3 dropping the changes made to the
"__HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP*__ is defined" case; just make the changes I
suggested.

In addition, please add to the commit message this snippet from Al:
```
As Al Viro notes:

You *can't* get smaller-than-int out of ? :, same as you can't get it
out of addition, etc.
```

Finally, Justin, you can retest this by running:
$ ARCH=arm make LLVM=1 -j72 allmodconfig fs/xfs/scrub/agheader.o
with your patch applied to linux-next. (It wouldn't hurt to build the
whole thing...but it's next, which is red today for ARCH=arm so nvm:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration2/runs/6796317443?check_suite_focus=true).
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers