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Kees Cook 3c8ba0d61d kernel.h: Retain constant expression output for max()/min()
In the effort to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1], it is desirable to
build with -Wvla.  However, this warning is overly pessimistic, in that
it is only happy with stack array sizes that are declared as constant
expressions, and not constant values.  One case of this is the
evaluation of the max() macro which, due to its construction, ends up
converting constant expression arguments into a constant value result.

All attempts to rewrite this macro with __builtin_constant_p() failed
with older compilers (e.g.  gcc 4.4)[2].  However, Martin Uecker,
constructed[3] a mind-shattering solution that works everywhere.
Cthulhu fhtagn!

This patch updates the min()/max() macros to evaluate to a constant
expression when called on constant expression arguments.  This removes
several false-positive stack VLA warnings from an x86 allmodconfig build
when -Wvla is added:

  $ diff -u before.txt after.txt | grep ^-
  -drivers/input/touchscreen/cyttsp4_core.c:871:2: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘ids’ [-Wvla]
  -fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c:344:4: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘namebuf’ [-Wvla]
  -lib/vsprintf.c:747:2: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘sym’ [-Wvla]
  -net/ipv4/proc.c:403:2: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘buff’ [-Wvla]
  -net/ipv6/proc.c:198:2: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘buff’ [-Wvla]
  -net/ipv6/proc.c:218:2: warning: ISO C90 forbids variable length array ‘buff64’ [-Wvla]

This also updates two cases where different enums were being compared
and explicitly casts them to int (which matches the old side-effect of
the single-evaluation code): one in tpm/tpm_tis_core.h, and one in
drm/drm_color_mgmt.c.

 [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/10/170
 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/20/845

Co-Developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Co-Developed-by: Martin Uecker <Martin.Uecker@med.uni-goettingen.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 14:17:16 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
block Char/Misc patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 20:07:20 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-04-04 17:11:08 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2018-04-05 13:21:57 -07:00
drivers kernel.h: Retain constant expression output for max()/min() 2018-04-05 14:17:16 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
include kernel.h: Retain constant expression output for max()/min() 2018-04-05 14:17:16 -07:00
init This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.17 kernel cycle: 2018-04-05 09:51:41 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next 2018-04-03 14:08:58 -07:00
net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-04-03 14:04:18 -07:00
scripts RISC-V changes for 4.17 2018-04-04 16:43:47 -07:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt kvm/arm fixes for 4.16, take 2 2018-03-15 21:45:37 +01:00
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.mailmap Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/topic/samsung' into spi-next 2018-04-02 15:56:32 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS sound updates for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-05 10:42:07 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.