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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T18:06:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:56:49+00:00</published>
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Until now no compiler supported an attribute to disable coverage
instrumentation as used by KCOV.

To work around this limitation on x86, noinstr functions have their
coverage instrumentation turned into nops by objtool.  However, this
solution doesn't scale automatically to other architectures, such as
arm64, which are migrating to use the generic entry code.

Clang [1] and GCC [2] have added support for the attribute recently.
[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/280333021e9550d80f5c1152a34e33e81df1e178
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=cec4d4a6782c9bd8d071839c50a239c49caca689
The changes will appear in Clang 13 and GCC 12.

Add __no_sanitize_coverage for both compilers, and add it to noinstr.

Note: In the Clang case, __has_feature(coverage_sanitizer) is only true if
the feature is enabled, and therefore we do not require an additional
defined(CONFIG_KCOV) (like in the GCC case where __has_attribute(..) is
always true) to avoid adding redundant attributes to functions if KCOV is
off.  That being said, compilers that support the attribute will not
generate errors/warnings if the attribute is redundantly used; however,
where possible let's avoid it as it reduces preprocessed code size and
associated compile-time overheads.

[elver@google.com: Implement __has_feature(coverage_sanitizer) in Clang]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210527162655.3246381-1-elver@google.com
[elver@google.com: add comment explaining __has_feature() in Clang]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210527194448.3470080-1-elver@google.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525175819.699786-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Until now no compiler supported an attribute to disable coverage
instrumentation as used by KCOV.

To work around this limitation on x86, noinstr functions have their
coverage instrumentation turned into nops by objtool.  However, this
solution doesn't scale automatically to other architectures, such as
arm64, which are migrating to use the generic entry code.

Clang [1] and GCC [2] have added support for the attribute recently.
[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/280333021e9550d80f5c1152a34e33e81df1e178
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=cec4d4a6782c9bd8d071839c50a239c49caca689
The changes will appear in Clang 13 and GCC 12.

Add __no_sanitize_coverage for both compilers, and add it to noinstr.

Note: In the Clang case, __has_feature(coverage_sanitizer) is only true if
the feature is enabled, and therefore we do not require an additional
defined(CONFIG_KCOV) (like in the GCC case where __has_attribute(..) is
always true) to avoid adding redundant attributes to functions if KCOV is
off.  That being said, compilers that support the attribute will not
generate errors/warnings if the attribute is redundantly used; however,
where possible let's avoid it as it reduces preprocessed code size and
associated compile-time overheads.

[elver@google.com: Implement __has_feature(coverage_sanitizer) in Clang]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210527162655.3246381-1-elver@google.com
[elver@google.com: add comment explaining __has_feature() in Clang]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210527194448.3470080-1-elver@google.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525175819.699786-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>include/linux/compiler-gcc.h: sparse can do constant folding of __builtin_bswap*()</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T18:20:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luc Van Oostenryck</name>
<email>luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T05:53:50+00:00</published>
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Sparse can do constant folding of __builtin_bswap*() since 2017.  Also, a
much recent version of Sparse is needed anyway, see commit 6ec4476ac825
("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9").

So, remove the comment about sparse not being yet able to constant fold
__builtin_bswap*() and remove the corresponding test of __CHECKER__.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210226092236.99369-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Sparse can do constant folding of __builtin_bswap*() since 2017.  Also, a
much recent version of Sparse is needed anyway, see commit 6ec4476ac825
("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9").

So, remove the comment about sparse not being yet able to constant fold
__builtin_bswap*() and remove the corresponding test of __CHECKER__.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210226092236.99369-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck &lt;luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: check the minimum compiler version in Kconfig</title>
<updated>2021-02-16T03:01:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-15T23:35:42+00:00</published>
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Paul Gortmaker reported a regression in the GCC version check. [1]
If you use GCC 4.8, the build breaks before showing the error message
"error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 4.9 or newer."

I do not want to apply his fix-up since it implies we would not be able
to remove any cc-option test. Anyway, I admit checking the GCC version
in &lt;linux/compiler-gcc.h&gt; is too late.

Almost at the same time, Linus also suggested to move the compiler
version error to Kconfig time. [2]

I unified the two similar scripts, gcc-version.sh and clang-version.sh
into cc-version.sh. The old scripts invoked the compiler multiple times
(3 times for gcc-version.sh, 4 times for clang-version.sh). I refactored
the code so the new one invokes the compiler just once, and also tried
my best to use shell-builtin commands where possible.

The new script runs faster.

  $ time ./scripts/clang-version.sh clang
  120000

  real    0m0.029s
  user    0m0.012s
  sys     0m0.021s

  $ time ./scripts/cc-version.sh clang
  Clang 120000

  real    0m0.009s
  user    0m0.006s
  sys     0m0.004s

cc-version.sh also shows an error message if the compiler is too old:

  $ make defconfig CC=clang-9
  *** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
  ***
  *** Compiler is too old.
  ***   Your Clang version:    9.0.1
  ***   Minimum Clang version: 10.0.1
  ***
  scripts/Kconfig.include:46: Sorry, this compiler is not supported.
  make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:81: defconfig] Error 1
  make: *** [Makefile:602: defconfig] Error 2

The new script takes care of ICC because we have &lt;linux/compiler-intel.h&gt;
although I am not sure if building the kernel with ICC is well-supported.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210110190807.134996-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh-+TMHPTFo1qs-MYyK7tZh-OQovA=pP3=e06aCVp6_kA@mail.gmail.com

Fixes: 87de84c9140e ("kbuild: remove cc-option test of -Werror=date-time")
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Paul Gortmaker reported a regression in the GCC version check. [1]
If you use GCC 4.8, the build breaks before showing the error message
"error Sorry, your version of GCC is too old - please use 4.9 or newer."

I do not want to apply his fix-up since it implies we would not be able
to remove any cc-option test. Anyway, I admit checking the GCC version
in &lt;linux/compiler-gcc.h&gt; is too late.

Almost at the same time, Linus also suggested to move the compiler
version error to Kconfig time. [2]

I unified the two similar scripts, gcc-version.sh and clang-version.sh
into cc-version.sh. The old scripts invoked the compiler multiple times
(3 times for gcc-version.sh, 4 times for clang-version.sh). I refactored
the code so the new one invokes the compiler just once, and also tried
my best to use shell-builtin commands where possible.

The new script runs faster.

  $ time ./scripts/clang-version.sh clang
  120000

  real    0m0.029s
  user    0m0.012s
  sys     0m0.021s

  $ time ./scripts/cc-version.sh clang
  Clang 120000

  real    0m0.009s
  user    0m0.006s
  sys     0m0.004s

cc-version.sh also shows an error message if the compiler is too old:

  $ make defconfig CC=clang-9
  *** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
  ***
  *** Compiler is too old.
  ***   Your Clang version:    9.0.1
  ***   Minimum Clang version: 10.0.1
  ***
  scripts/Kconfig.include:46: Sorry, this compiler is not supported.
  make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:81: defconfig] Error 1
  make: *** [Makefile:602: defconfig] Error 2

The new script takes care of ICC because we have &lt;linux/compiler-intel.h&gt;
although I am not sure if building the kernel with ICC is well-supported.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210110190807.134996-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh-+TMHPTFo1qs-MYyK7tZh-OQovA=pP3=e06aCVp6_kA@mail.gmail.com

Fixes: 87de84c9140e ("kbuild: remove cc-option test of -Werror=date-time")
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>compiler.h: Raise minimum version of GCC to 5.1 for arm64</title>
<updated>2021-01-15T10:04:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-12T22:48:32+00:00</published>
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GCC versions &gt;= 4.9 and &lt; 5.1 have been shown to emit memory references
beyond the stack pointer, resulting in memory corruption if an interrupt
is taken after the stack pointer has been adjusted but before the
reference has been executed. This leads to subtle, infrequent data
corruption such as the EXT4 problems reported by Russell King at the
link below.

Life is too short for buggy compilers, so raise the minimum GCC version
required by arm64 to 5.1.

Reported-by: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105154726.GD1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112224832.10980-1-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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GCC versions &gt;= 4.9 and &lt; 5.1 have been shown to emit memory references
beyond the stack pointer, resulting in memory corruption if an interrupt
is taken after the stack pointer has been adjusted but before the
reference has been executed. This leads to subtle, infrequent data
corruption such as the EXT4 problems reported by Russell King at the
link below.

Life is too short for buggy compilers, so raise the minimum GCC version
required by arm64 to 5.1.

Reported-by: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105154726.GD1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112224832.10980-1-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>compiler.h: fix barrier_data() on clang</title>
<updated>2020-11-14T19:26:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arvind Sankar</name>
<email>nivedita@alum.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-14T06:51:59+00:00</published>
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Commit 815f0ddb346c ("include/linux/compiler*.h: make compiler-*.h
mutually exclusive") neglected to copy barrier_data() from
compiler-gcc.h into compiler-clang.h.

The definition in compiler-gcc.h was really to work around clang's more
aggressive optimization, so this broke barrier_data() on clang, and
consequently memzero_explicit() as well.

For example, this results in at least the memzero_explicit() call in
lib/crypto/sha256.c:sha256_transform() being optimized away by clang.

Fix this by moving the definition of barrier_data() into compiler.h.

Also move the gcc/clang definition of barrier() into compiler.h,
__memory_barrier() is icc-specific (and barrier() is already defined
using it in compiler-intel.h) and doesn't belong in compiler.h.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix ALPHA builds when SMP is not enabled]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101231835.4589-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Fixes: 815f0ddb346c ("include/linux/compiler*.h: make compiler-*.h mutually exclusive")
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014212631.207844-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 815f0ddb346c ("include/linux/compiler*.h: make compiler-*.h
mutually exclusive") neglected to copy barrier_data() from
compiler-gcc.h into compiler-clang.h.

The definition in compiler-gcc.h was really to work around clang's more
aggressive optimization, so this broke barrier_data() on clang, and
consequently memzero_explicit() as well.

For example, this results in at least the memzero_explicit() call in
lib/crypto/sha256.c:sha256_transform() being optimized away by clang.

Fix this by moving the definition of barrier_data() into compiler.h.

Also move the gcc/clang definition of barrier() into compiler.h,
__memory_barrier() is icc-specific (and barrier() is already defined
using it in compiler-intel.h) and doesn't belong in compiler.h.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix ALPHA builds when SMP is not enabled]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101231835.4589-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Fixes: 815f0ddb346c ("include/linux/compiler*.h: make compiler-*.h mutually exclusive")
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014212631.207844-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Don't rely on GCC __attribute__((optimize)) to disable GCSE</title>
<updated>2020-10-30T03:01:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-28T17:15:05+00:00</published>
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Commit 3193c0836 ("bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for
___bpf_prog_run()") introduced a __no_fgcse macro that expands to a
function scope __attribute__((optimize("-fno-gcse"))), to disable a
GCC specific optimization that was causing trouble on x86 builds, and
was not expected to have any positive effect in the first place.

However, as the GCC manual documents, __attribute__((optimize))
is not for production use, and results in all other optimization
options to be forgotten for the function in question. This can
cause all kinds of trouble, but in one particular reported case,
it causes -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to be disregarded,
resulting in .eh_frame info to be emitted for the function.

This reverts commit 3193c0836, and instead, it disables the -fgcse
optimization for the entire source file, but only when building for
X86 using GCC with CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON disabled. Note that the
original commit states that CONFIG_RETPOLINE=n triggers the issue,
whereas CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y performs better without the optimization,
so it is kept disabled in both cases.

Fixes: 3193c0836f20 ("bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for ___bpf_prog_run()")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdUg0WJHEcq6to0-eODpXPOywLot6UD2=GFHpzoj_hCoBQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201028171506.15682-2-ardb@kernel.org
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Commit 3193c0836 ("bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for
___bpf_prog_run()") introduced a __no_fgcse macro that expands to a
function scope __attribute__((optimize("-fno-gcse"))), to disable a
GCC specific optimization that was causing trouble on x86 builds, and
was not expected to have any positive effect in the first place.

However, as the GCC manual documents, __attribute__((optimize))
is not for production use, and results in all other optimization
options to be forgotten for the function in question. This can
cause all kinds of trouble, but in one particular reported case,
it causes -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to be disregarded,
resulting in .eh_frame info to be emitted for the function.

This reverts commit 3193c0836, and instead, it disables the -fgcse
optimization for the entire source file, but only when building for
X86 using GCC with CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON disabled. Note that the
original commit states that CONFIG_RETPOLINE=n triggers the issue,
whereas CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y performs better without the optimization,
so it is kept disabled in both cases.

Fixes: 3193c0836f20 ("bpf: Disable GCC -fgcse optimization for ___bpf_prog_run()")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMuHMdUg0WJHEcq6to0-eODpXPOywLot6UD2=GFHpzoj_hCoBQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201028171506.15682-2-ardb@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>compiler-gcc: improve version error</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:47:55+00:00</published>
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As Kees suggests, doing so provides developers with two useful pieces of
information:
- The kernel build was attempting to use GCC.
  (Maybe they accidentally poked the wrong configs in a CI.)
- They need 4.9 or better.
  ("Upgrade to what version?" doesn't need to be dug out of documentation,
   headers, etc.)

Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-8-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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As Kees suggests, doing so provides developers with two useful pieces of
information:
- The kernel build was attempting to use GCC.
  (Maybe they accidentally poked the wrong configs in a CI.)
- They need 4.9 or better.
  ("Upgrade to what version?" doesn't need to be dug out of documentation,
   headers, etc.)

Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200902225911.209899-8-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'uninit-macro-v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2020-08-04T20:49:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-04T20:49:43+00:00</published>
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Pull uninitialized_var() macro removal from Kees Cook:
 "This is long overdue, and has hidden too many bugs over the years. The
  series has several "by hand" fixes, and then a trivial treewide
  replacement.

   - Clean up non-trivial uses of uninitialized_var()

   - Update documentation and checkpatch for uninitialized_var() removal

   - Treewide removal of uninitialized_var()"

* tag 'uninit-macro-v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro
  treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro
  mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  f2fs: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro
  media: sur40: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  clk: spear: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  clk: st: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  spi: davinci: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  ide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  b43: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  drbd: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  x86/mm/numa: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var()
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Pull uninitialized_var() macro removal from Kees Cook:
 "This is long overdue, and has hidden too many bugs over the years. The
  series has several "by hand" fixes, and then a trivial treewide
  replacement.

   - Clean up non-trivial uses of uninitialized_var()

   - Update documentation and checkpatch for uninitialized_var() removal

   - Treewide removal of uninitialized_var()"

* tag 'uninit-macro-v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro
  treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  checkpatch: Remove awareness of uninitialized_var() macro
  mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  f2fs: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro
  media: sur40: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  clk: spear: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  clk: st: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  spi: davinci: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  ide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  b43: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  drbd: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  x86/mm/numa: Remove uninitialized_var() usage
  docs: deprecated.rst: Add uninitialized_var()
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<entry>
<title>compiler: Remove uninitialized_var() macro</title>
<updated>2020-07-16T19:35:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T20:09:38+00:00</published>
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Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.

As recommended[2] by[3] Linus[4], remove the macro. With the recent
change to disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized in v5.7 in commit 78a5255ffb6a
("Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized"), this is likely
the best time to make this treewide change.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.

As recommended[2] by[3] Linus[4], remove the macro. With the recent
change to disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized in v5.7 in commit 78a5255ffb6a
("Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized"), this is likely
the best time to make this treewide change.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T17:48:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-08T17:48:35+00:00</published>
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I realize that we fairly recently raised it to 4.8, but the fact is, 4.9
is a much better minimum version to target.

We have a number of workarounds for actual bugs in pre-4.9 gcc versions
(including things like internal compiler errors on ARM), but we also
have some syntactic workarounds for lacking features.

In particular, raising the minimum to 4.9 means that we can now just
assume _Generic() exists, which is likely the much better replacement
for a lot of very convoluted built-time magic with conditionals on
sizeof and/or __builtin_choose_expr() with same_type() etc.

Using _Generic also means that you will need to have a very recent
version of 'sparse', but thats easy to build yourself, and much less of
a hassle than some old gcc version can be.

The latest (in a long string) of reasons for minimum compiler version
upgrades was commit 5435f73d5c4a ("efi/x86: Fix build with gcc 4").

Ard points out that RHEL 7 uses gcc-4.8, but the people who stay back on
old RHEL versions persumably also don't build their own kernels anyway.
And maybe they should cross-built or just have a little side affair with
a newer compiler?

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I realize that we fairly recently raised it to 4.8, but the fact is, 4.9
is a much better minimum version to target.

We have a number of workarounds for actual bugs in pre-4.9 gcc versions
(including things like internal compiler errors on ARM), but we also
have some syntactic workarounds for lacking features.

In particular, raising the minimum to 4.9 means that we can now just
assume _Generic() exists, which is likely the much better replacement
for a lot of very convoluted built-time magic with conditionals on
sizeof and/or __builtin_choose_expr() with same_type() etc.

Using _Generic also means that you will need to have a very recent
version of 'sparse', but thats easy to build yourself, and much less of
a hassle than some old gcc version can be.

The latest (in a long string) of reasons for minimum compiler version
upgrades was commit 5435f73d5c4a ("efi/x86: Fix build with gcc 4").

Ard points out that RHEL 7 uses gcc-4.8, but the people who stay back on
old RHEL versions persumably also don't build their own kernels anyway.
And maybe they should cross-built or just have a little side affair with
a newer compiler?

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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