Re: [PATCH rcu 5/5] checkpatch: Complain about unexpected uses of RCU Tasks Trace

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 03:34:14PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-07-17 at 11:04 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > RCU Tasks Trace is quite specialized, having been created specifically
> > for sleepable BPF programs.  Because it allows general blocking within
> > readers, any new use of RCU Tasks Trace must take current use cases into
> > account.  Therefore, update checkpatch.pl to complain about use of any of
> > the RCU Tasks Trace API members outside of BPF and outside of RCU itself.
> > 
> > Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:CHECKPATCH)
> > Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:CHECKPATCH)
> > Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> (reviewer:CHECKPATCH)
> > Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
> > @@ -7457,6 +7457,24 @@ sub process {
> >  			}
> >  		}
> >  
> > +# Complain about RCU Tasks Trace used outside of BPF (and of course, RCU).
> > +		if ($line =~ /\brcu_read_lock_trace\s*\(/ ||
> > +		    $line =~ /\brcu_read_lock_trace_held\s*\(/ ||
> > +		    $line =~ /\brcu_read_unlock_trace\s*\(/ ||
> > +		    $line =~ /\bcall_rcu_tasks_trace\s*\(/ ||
> > +		    $line =~ /\bsynchronize_rcu_tasks_trace\s*\(/ ||
> > +		    $line =~ /\brcu_barrier_tasks_trace\s*\(/ ||
> > +		    $line =~ /\brcu_request_urgent_qs_task\s*\(/) {
> > +			if ($realfile !~ m@^kernel/bpf@ &&
> > +			    $realfile !~ m@^include/linux/bpf@ &&
> > +			    $realfile !~ m@^net/bpf@ &&
> > +			    $realfile !~ m@^kernel/rcu@ &&
> > +			    $realfile !~ m@^include/linux/rcu@) {
> 
> Functions and paths like these tend to be accreted.
> 
> Please use a variable or 2 like:
> 
> our $rcu_trace_funcs = qr{(?x:
> 	rcu_read_lock_trace |
> 	rcu_read_lock_trace_held |
> 	rcu_read_unlock_trace |
> 	call_rcu_tasks_trace |
> 	synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace |
> 	rcu_barrier_tasks_trace |
> 	rcu_request_urgent_qs_task
> )};
> our $rcu_trace_paths = qr{(?x:
> 	kernel/bfp/ |
> 	include/linux/bpf |
> 	net/bpf/ |
> 	kernel/rcu/ |
> 	include/linux/rcu
> )};

Like this?

# Complain about RCU Tasks Trace used outside of BPF (and of course, RCU).
		our $rcu_trace_funcs = qr{(?x:
			rcu_read_lock_trace |
			rcu_read_lock_trace_held |
			rcu_read_unlock_trace |
			call_rcu_tasks_trace |
			synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace |
			rcu_barrier_tasks_trace |
			rcu_request_urgent_qs_task
		)};
		our $rcu_trace_paths = qr{(?x:
			kernel/bfp/ |
			include/linux/bpf |
			net/bpf/ |
			kernel/rcu/ |
			include/linux/rcu
		)};
		if ($line =~ /$rcu_trace_funcs/) {
			if ($realfile !~ m@^$rcu_trace_paths@) {
				WARN("RCU_TASKS_TRACE",
				     "use of RCU tasks trace is incorrect outside BPF or core RCU code\n" . $herecurr);
			}
		}

No, that is definitely wrong.  It has lost track of the list of pathnames,
thus complaining about uses of those functions in files where their use
is permitted.

But this seems to work:

# Complain about RCU Tasks Trace used outside of BPF (and of course, RCU).
		our $rcu_trace_funcs = qr{(?x:
			rcu_read_lock_trace |
			rcu_read_lock_trace_held |
			rcu_read_unlock_trace |
			call_rcu_tasks_trace |
			synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace |
			rcu_barrier_tasks_trace |
			rcu_request_urgent_qs_task
		)};
		if ($line =~ /\b$rcu_trace_funcs\s*\(/) {
			if ($realfile !~ m@^kernel/bpf@ &&
			    $realfile !~ m@^include/linux/bpf@ &&
			    $realfile !~ m@^net/bpf@ &&
			    $realfile !~ m@^kernel/rcu@ &&
			    $realfile !~ m@^include/linux/rcu@) {
				WARN("RCU_TASKS_TRACE",
				     "use of RCU tasks trace is incorrect outside BPF or core RCU code\n" . $herecurr);
			}
		}

Maybe the "^" needs to be distributed into $rcu_trace_paths?

# Complain about RCU Tasks Trace used outside of BPF (and of course, RCU).
		our $rcu_trace_funcs = qr{(?x:
			rcu_read_lock_trace |
			rcu_read_lock_trace_held |
			rcu_read_unlock_trace |
			call_rcu_tasks_trace |
			synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace |
			rcu_barrier_tasks_trace |
			rcu_request_urgent_qs_task
		)};
		our $rcu_trace_paths = qr{(?x:
			^kernel/bfp/ |
			^include/linux/bpf |
			^net/bpf/ |
			^kernel/rcu/ |
			^include/linux/rcu
		)};
		if ($line =~ /\b$rcu_trace_funcs\s*\(/) {
			if ($realfile !~ m@$rcu_trace_paths@) {
				WARN("RCU_TASKS_TRACE",
				     "use of RCU tasks trace is incorrect outside BPF or core RCU code\n" . $herecurr);
			}
		}

But no joy here, either.  Which is no surprise, given that perl is
happy to distribute the "\b" and the "\s*\(" across the elements of
$rcu_trace_funcs.  I tried a number of other variations, including
inverting the "if" condition "(!(... =~ ...))", inverting the "if"
condition via an empty "then" clause, replacing the "m@" with "/",
replacing the "|" in the "qr{}" with "&", and a few others.

Again, listing the pathnames explicitly in the second "if" condition
works just fine.

Help?

							Thanx, Paul