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Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions

From Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions
Date 2016-04-25 18:10 +0200
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James, 

Can you merge this patch for 4.6?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 08:56:00AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> objtool reports [1] the following warning:
> 
>   drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_host_fabric_name() falls through to next function qla2x00_get_starget_port_name()
> 
> This warning is due to a gcc bug [2] which causes corrupt code:
> 
>   0000000000002f53 <qla2x00_get_host_fabric_name>:
>       2f53:       55                      push   %rbp
>       2f54:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
> 
>   0000000000002f57 <qla2x00_get_fc_host_stats>:
>       2f57:       55                      push   %rbp
>       2f58:       b9 e8 00 00 00          mov    $0xe8,%ecx
>       2f5d:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
>   ...
> 
> Note that qla2x00_get_host_fabric_name() is inexplicably truncated after
> setting up the frame pointer.  It falls through to the next function,
> which is very bad.
> 
> It occurs with the combination of the following two recent commits:
> 
>   bc27fb68aaad ("include/uapi/linux/byteorder, swab: force inlining of some byteswap operations")
>   ef3fb2422ffe ("scsi: fc: use get/put_unaligned64 for wwn access")
> 
> The call chain which appears to trigger the problem is:
> 
>   qla2x00_get_host_fabric_name()
>     wwn_to_u64()
>       get_unaligned_be64()
>         be64_to_cpup()
>           __be64_to_cpup()
> 
> The bug requires very specific conditions to trigger.  According to Martin
> Jambor (from the gcc bugzilla):
> 
>   "This bug can occur when an inlineable function containing a call to
>   __builtin_constant_p, which checks a parameter or a value it
>   references and a (possibly indirect) caller of the function actually
>   passes a constant, but stores it using a type of a different size."
> 
> There's no reliable way to avoid (or even detect) the bug.  Until it
> gets fixed in released versions of gcc, the least intrusive workaround
> for this particular issue is to force the wwn conversion functions to be
> inlined.
> 
> [1] https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2016-April/019579.html
> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70646
> 
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h b/include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h
> index bf66ea6..1919cd4 100644
> --- a/include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h
> +++ b/include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h
> @@ -796,12 +796,12 @@ fc_remote_port_chkready(struct fc_rport *rport)
>  	return result;
>  }
>  
> -static inline u64 wwn_to_u64(u8 *wwn)
> +static __always_inline u64 wwn_to_u64(u8 *wwn)
>  {
>  	return get_unaligned_be64(wwn);
>  }
>  
> -static inline void u64_to_wwn(u64 inm, u8 *wwn)
> +static __always_inline void u64_to_wwn(u64 inm, u8 *wwn)
>  {
>  	put_unaligned_be64(inm, wwn);
>  }
> -- 
> 2.4.11
> 

-- 
Josh

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Re: This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force  inlining of some byteswap operations) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-16 00:30 +0200
  Re: This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force  inlining of some byteswap operations) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-04-16 11:10 +0200
    Re: This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force  inlining of some byteswap operations) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-18 15:40 +0200
      Re: This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force inlining of some byteswap operations) Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-18 16:10 +0200
        Re: This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force  inlining of some byteswap operations) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-18 16:20 +0200
          Re: This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force inlining of some byteswap operations) Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-18 16:30 +0200
      Re: This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force  inlining of some byteswap operations) Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-04-19 11:00 +0200
        [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-19 16:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@qlogic.com> - 2016-04-23 01:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-25 18:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-04-26 04:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-04-26 05:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-26 09:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-04-26 10:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-26 12:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-04-26 15:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-26 18:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-04-27 00:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-04-27 02:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz> - 2016-04-27 13:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-27 23:40 +0200
                [PATCH, RFT] byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-04-28 00:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH, RFT] byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-04-28 00:20 +0200

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