[PATCH V6 2/2] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Wed Oct 16 20:54:23 AEDT 2019



On 10/15/2019 11:39 PM, Qian Cai wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 14:51 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> +static unsigned long __init get_random_vaddr(void)
>> +{
>> +	unsigned long random_vaddr, random_pages, total_user_pages;
>> +
>> +	total_user_pages = (TASK_SIZE - FIRST_USER_ADDRESS) / PAGE_SIZE;
>> +
>> +	random_pages = get_random_long() % total_user_pages;
>> +	random_vaddr = FIRST_USER_ADDRESS + random_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
>> +
>> +	WARN_ON(random_vaddr > TASK_SIZE);
>> +	WARN_ON(random_vaddr < FIRST_USER_ADDRESS);
> 
> It would be nice if this patch does not introduce a new W=1 GCC warning here on
> x86 because FIRST_USER_ADDRESS is 0, and GCC think the code is dumb because
> "random_vaddr" is unsigned,
> 
> In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h:83,
>                  from ./include/linux/bug.h:5,
>                  from ./include/linux/mmdebug.h:5,
>                  from ./include/linux/gfp.h:5,
>                  from mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:13:
> mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c: In function ‘get_random_vaddr’:
> mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:359:23: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is
> always false [-Wtype-limits]
>   WARN_ON(random_vaddr < FIRST_USER_ADDRESS);
>                        ^
> ./include/asm-generic/bug.h:113:25: note: in definition of macro ‘WARN_ON’
>   int __ret_warn_on = !!(condition);    \
>                          ^~~~~~~~~

The test checks against an erroneous unsigned long overflow when
FIRST_USER_ADDRESS is not 0 but a positive number. Wondering if
the compiler will still complain if we merge both the WARN_ON()
checks as || on a single statement.


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