[PATCH v6 12/26] bitfield: Add less-checking __FIELD_{GET,PREP}()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Andy,

On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 at 17:09, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko at intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 03:49:03PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 at 15:44, Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko at intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > The BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() check against "~0ull" works only with "unsigned
> > > > (long) long" _mask types.  For constant masks, that condition is usually
> > > > met, as GENMASK() yields an UL value.  The few places where the
> > > > constant mask is stored in an intermediate variable were fixed by
> > > > changing the variable type to u64 (see e.g. [1] and [2]).
> > > >
> > > > However, for non-constant masks, smaller unsigned types should be valid,
> > > > too, but currently lead to "result of comparison of constant
> > > > 18446744073709551615 with expression of type ... is always
> > > > false"-warnings with clang and W=1.
> > > >
> > > > Hence refactor the __BF_FIELD_CHECK() helper, and factor out
> > > > __FIELD_{GET,PREP}().  The later lack the single problematic check, but
> > > > are otherwise identical to FIELD_{GET,PREP}(), and are intended to be
> > > > used in the fully non-const variants later.

> > > > +     BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(__bf_cast_unsigned(mask, mask) >               \
> > > > +                      __bf_cast_unsigned(reg, ~0ull),                \
> > > > +                      pfx "type of reg too small for mask")
> > >
> > > Perhaps we may convert this (and others?) to static_assert():s at some point?
> >
> > Nick tried that before, without success:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAKwvOdm_prtk1UQNJQGidZm44Lk582S3p=of0y46+rVjnSgXJg@mail.gmail.com
>
> Ah, this is unfortunate.

Of course, it might be an actual bug in the i915 driver...

The extra checking in field_prep() in case the compiler can
determine that the mask is a constant already found a possible bug
in drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/core.c:rtw89_roc_end():

    rtw89_write32_mask(rtwdev, reg, B_AX_RX_FLTR_CFG_MASK, rtwdev->hal.rx_fltr);

drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/reg.h:

    #define B_AX_RX_MPDU_MAX_LEN_MASK GENMASK(21, 16)
    #define B_AX_RX_FLTR_CFG_MASK ((u32)~B_AX_RX_MPDU_MAX_LEN_MASK)

so it looks like B_AX_RX_FLTR_CFG_MASK is not the proper mask for
this operation...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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