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Re: [XEN PATCH v2 2/3] x86/uaccess: replace __{get,put}_user_bad() with STATIC_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE()



On 07/02/24 15:16, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 07.02.2024 14:51, Federico Serafini wrote:
On 07/02/24 08:38, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 07.02.2024 02:08, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Tue, 6 Feb 2024, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 26.01.2024 11:05, Federico Serafini wrote:
@@ -208,7 +205,7 @@ do {                                                        
               \
       case 8:                                                                \
           put_unsafe_asm(x, ptr, grd, retval, "q",  "", "ir", errret);       \
           break;                                                             \
-    default: __put_user_bad();                                             \
+    default: STATIC_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE();                                  \
       }                                                                      \
       clac();                                                                \
   } while ( false )
@@ -227,7 +224,7 @@ do {                                                        
               \
       case 2: get_unsafe_asm(x, ptr, grd, retval, "w", "=r", errret); break; \
       case 4: get_unsafe_asm(x, ptr, grd, retval, "k", "=r", errret); break; \
       case 8: get_unsafe_asm(x, ptr, grd, retval,  "", "=r", errret); break; \
-    default: __get_user_bad();                                             \
+    default: STATIC_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE();                                  \
       }                                                                      \
       clac();                                                                \
   } while ( false )

Related to my remark on patch 1 - how is one to know the macro this was
invoked from, when seeing the resulting diagnostic?

I am not sure what do you mean here... we do get an error like the
following (I added a STATIC_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE for case 4):

./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:262: Error: static assertion failed: 
unreachable

Right - and how do I know what _user_ of the macro actually triggered
it? ISTR suggesting to use one or more of __FILE__ / __LINE__ /
__FUNCTION__ here, for that specific purpose ...

To test the macro and its diagnostics,
I modified the first "git grep" occurrence of ASSERT_UNREACHABLE()
on the x86 code with STATIC_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE(),
that is in file arch/x86/alternative.c, line 312,
function _apply_alternatives().

What I got is the following build error:

...
arch/x86/alternative.c: Assembler messages:
arch/x86/alternative.c:312: Error: static assertion failed: unreachable
    CC      arch/x86/copy_page.o
make[2]: *** [Rules.mk:247: arch/x86/alternative.o] Error 1

But that's not what my request was about. Here sufficient context is
given, even if it would be nice if the function was also visible right
away. But that's not the same as the case above, where the new macro
is used inside another macro.

An example of that is the get_unsafe_size() macro,
whose body uses STATIC_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE().
A wrong use of get_unsafe_size() at line n
leads to a build error pointing to the line n,
isn't this the desired behavior?

--
Federico Serafini, M.Sc.

Software Engineer, BUGSENG (http://bugseng.com)



 


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