[PATCH 2/3] disable -Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx()

Paul Burton paul.burton at mips.com
Sat Jun 16 10:53:21 AEST 2018


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

gcc-8 warns for every single definition of a system call entry
point, e.g.:

include/linux/compat.h:56:18: error: 'compat_sys_rt_sigprocmask' alias between functions of incompatible types 'long int(int,  compat_sigset_t *, compat_sigset_t *, compat_size_t)' {aka 'long int(int,  struct <anonymous> *, struct <anonymous> *, unsigned int)'} and 'long int(long int,  long int,  long int,  long int)' [-Werror=attribute-alias]
  asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))\
                  ^~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/compat.h:45:2: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx'
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(4, _##name, __VA_ARGS__)
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/signal.c:2601:1: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4'
 COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_sigprocmask, int, how, compat_sigset_t __user *, nset,
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/linux/compat.h:60:18: note: aliased declaration here
  asmlinkage long compat_SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))\
                  ^~~~~~~~~~

The new warning seems reasonable in principle, but it doesn't
help us here, since we rely on the type mismatch to sanitize the
system call arguments. After I reported this as GCC PR82435, a new
-Wno-attribute-alias option was added that could be used to turn the
warning off globally on the command line, but I'd prefer to do it a
little more fine-grained.

Interestingly, turning a warning off and on again inside of
a single macro doesn't always work, in this case I had to add
an extra statement inbetween and decided to copy the __SC_TEST
one from the native syscall to the compat syscall macro.  See
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83256 for more details
about this.

[paul.burton at mips.com:
  - Rebase atop current master.
  - Split GCC & version arguments to __diag_ignore() in order to match
    changes to the preceding patch.
  - Add the comment argument to match the preceding patch.]

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton at mips.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml at markovi.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew at wil.cx>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka at chromium.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael at gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne at gmail.com>
Cc: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
Cc: He Zhe <zhe.he at windriver.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips at linux-mips.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
---

 include/linux/compat.h   | 8 +++++++-
 include/linux/syscalls.h | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index b1a5562b3215..c68acc47da57 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@
  */
 #ifndef COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx
 #define COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, name, ...)					\
+	__diag_push();								\
+	__diag_ignore(GCC, 8, "-Wattribute-alias",				\
+		      "Type aliasing is used to sanitize syscall arguments");\
 	asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__));	\
 	asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))	\
 		__attribute__((alias(__stringify(__se_compat_sys##name))));	\
@@ -80,8 +83,11 @@
 	asmlinkage long __se_compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__));	\
 	asmlinkage long __se_compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))	\
 	{									\
-		return __do_compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DELOUSE,__VA_ARGS__));\
+		long ret = __do_compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DELOUSE,__VA_ARGS__));\
+		__MAP(x,__SC_TEST,__VA_ARGS__);					\
+		return ret;							\
 	}									\
+	__diag_pop();								\
 	static inline long __do_compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))
 #endif /* COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx */
 
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 73810808cdf2..a368a68cb667 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ static inline int is_syscall_trace_event(struct trace_event_call *tp_event)
  */
 #ifndef __SYSCALL_DEFINEx
 #define __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, name, ...)					\
+	__diag_push();							\
+	__diag_ignore(GCC, 8, "-Wattribute-alias",			\
+		      "Type aliasing is used to sanitize syscall arguments");\
 	asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))	\
 		__attribute__((alias(__stringify(__se_sys##name))));	\
 	ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION(sys##name, ERRNO);			\
@@ -243,6 +246,7 @@ static inline int is_syscall_trace_event(struct trace_event_call *tp_event)
 		__PROTECT(x, ret,__MAP(x,__SC_ARGS,__VA_ARGS__));	\
 		return ret;						\
 	}								\
+	__diag_pop();							\
 	static inline long __do_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))
 #endif /* __SYSCALL_DEFINEx */
 
-- 
2.17.1



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