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2018-07-11Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future MakeRasmus Villemoes
commit 9564a8cf422d7b58f6e857e3546d346fa970191e upstream. I tried building using a freshly built Make (4.2.1-69-g8a731d1), but already the objtool build broke with orc_dump.c: In function ‘orc_dump’: orc_dump.c:106:2: error: ‘elf_getshnum’ is deprecated [-Werror=deprecated-declarations] if (elf_getshdrnum(elf, &nr_sections)) { Turns out that with that new Make, the backslash was not removed, so cpp didn't see a #include directive, grep found nothing, and -DLIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED was wrongly put in CFLAGS. Now, that new Make behaviour is documented in their NEWS file: * WARNING: Backward-incompatibility! Number signs (#) appearing inside a macro reference or function invocation no longer introduce comments and should not be escaped with backslashes: thus a call such as: foo := $(shell echo '#') is legal. Previously the number sign needed to be escaped, for example: foo := $(shell echo '\#') Now this latter will resolve to "\#". If you want to write makefiles portable to both versions, assign the number sign to a variable: C := \# foo := $(shell echo '$C') This was claimed to be fixed in 3.81, but wasn't, for some reason. To detect this change search for 'nocomment' in the .FEATURES variable. This also fixes up the two make-cmd instances to replace # with $(pound) rather than with \#. There might very well be other places that need similar fixup in preparation for whatever future Make release contains the above change, but at least this builds an x86_64 defconfig with the new make. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197847 Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-06-13objtool: Fix gcov check for older versions of GCCJosh Poimboeuf
commit 867ac9d737094e46a6c33213f16dd1ec9e8bd5d5 upstream. Objtool tries to silence 'unreachable instruction' warnings when it detects gcov is enabled, because gcov produces a lot of unreachable instructions and they don't really matter. However, the 0-day bot is still reporting some unreachable instruction warnings with CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=y on GCC 4.6.4. As it turns out, objtool's gcov detection doesn't work with older versions of GCC because they don't create a bunch of symbols with the 'gcov.' prefix like newer versions of GCC do. Move the gcov check out of objtool and instead just create a new '--no-unreachable' flag which can be passed in by the kernel Makefile when CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL is defined. Also rename the 'nofp' variable to 'no_fp' for consistency with the new 'no_unreachable' variable. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 9cfffb116887 ("objtool: Skip all "unreachable instruction" warnings for gcov kernels") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c243dc78eb2ffdabb6e927844dea39b6033cd395.1500939244.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [just Makefile.build as the other parts of this patch already applied - gregkh] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-06-13kconfig: Avoid format overflow warning from GCC 8.1Nathan Chancellor
commit 2ae89c7a82ea9d81a19b4fc2df23bef4b112f24e upstream. In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2485: scripts/kconfig/confdata.c: In function ‘conf_write’: scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:773:22: warning: ‘%s’ directive writing likely 7 or more bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4097 [-Wformat-overflow=] sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename); ^~ scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:773:19: note: assuming directive output of 7 bytes sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename); ^~~~~~ scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:773:2: note: ‘sprintf’ output 1 or more bytes (assuming 4104) into a destination of size 4097 sprintf(newname, "%s%s", dirname, basename); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:776:23: warning: ‘.tmpconfig.’ directive writing 11 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 4097 [-Wformat-overflow=] sprintf(tmpname, "%s.tmpconfig.%d", dirname, (int)getpid()); ^~~~~~~~~~~ scripts/kconfig/confdata.c:776:3: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 13 and 4119 bytes into a destination of size 4097 sprintf(tmpname, "%s.tmpconfig.%d", dirname, (int)getpid()); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Increase the size of tmpname and newname to make GCC happy. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-30builddeb: Fix header package regarding dtc source linksJan Kiszka
[ Upstream commit f8437520704cfd9cc442a99d73ed708a3cdadaf9 ] Since d5d332d3f7e8, a couple of links in scripts/dtc/include-prefixes are additionally required in order to build device trees with the header package. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Reviewed-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-30kbuild: make scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh robust against timestamp racesNicolas Pitre
[ Upstream commit 825d487583089f9a33d31650c9c41f6474aab7fc ] Some filesystems have timestamps with coarse precision that may allow for a recently built object file to have the same timestamp as the updated time on one of its dependency files. When that happens, the object file doesn't get rebuilt as it should. This is especially the case on filesystems that don't have sub-second time precision, such as ext3 or Ext4 with 128B inodes. Let's prevent that by making sure updated dependency files have a newer timestamp than the first file we created (i.e. autoksyms.h.tmpnew). Reported-by: Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindroth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Tested-by: Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindroth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-30kconfig: Fix expr_free() E_NOT leakUlf Magnusson
[ Upstream commit 5b1374b3b3c2fc4f63a398adfa446fb8eff791a4 ] Only the E_NOT operand and not the E_NOT node itself was freed, due to accidentally returning too early in expr_free(). Outline of leak: switch (e->type) { ... case E_NOT: expr_free(e->left.expr); return; ... } *Never reached, 'e' leaked* free(e); Fix by changing the 'return' to a 'break'. Summary from Valgrind on 'menuconfig' (ARCH=x86) before the fix: LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 44,448 bytes in 1,852 blocks ... Summary after the fix: LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 1,608 bytes in 67 blocks ... Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-30kconfig: Fix automatic menu creation mem leakUlf Magnusson
[ Upstream commit ae7440ef0c8013d68c00dad6900e7cce5311bb1c ] expr_trans_compare() always allocates and returns a new expression, giving the following leak outline: ... *Allocate* basedep = expr_trans_compare(basedep, E_UNEQUAL, &symbol_no); ... for (menu = parent->next; menu; menu = menu->next) { ... *Copy* dep2 = expr_copy(basedep); ... *Free copy* expr_free(dep2); } *basedep lost!* Fix by freeing 'basedep' after the loop. Summary from Valgrind on 'menuconfig' (ARCH=x86) before the fix: LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 344,376 bytes in 14,349 blocks ... Summary after the fix: LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 44,448 bytes in 1,852 blocks ... Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-30kconfig: Don't leak main menus during parsingUlf Magnusson
[ Upstream commit 0724a7c32a54e3e50d28e19e30c59014f61d4e2c ] If a 'mainmenu' entry appeared in the Kconfig files, two things would leak: - The 'struct property' allocated for the default "Linux Kernel Configuration" prompt. - The string for the T_WORD/T_WORD_QUOTE prompt after the T_MAINMENU token, allocated on the heap in zconf.l. To fix it, introduce a new 'no_mainmenu_stmt' nonterminal that matches if there's no 'mainmenu' and adds the default prompt. That means the prompt only gets allocated once regardless of whether there's a 'mainmenu' statement or not, and managing it becomes simple. Summary from Valgrind on 'menuconfig' (ARCH=x86) before the fix: LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 344,568 bytes in 14,352 blocks ... Summary after the fix: LEAK SUMMARY: definitely lost: 344,440 bytes in 14,350 blocks ... Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-13tags: honor COMPILED_SOURCE with apart output directoryRobert Jarzmik
[ Upstream commit cbf52a3e6a8a92beec6e0c70abf4111cd8f8faf7 ] When the kernel is compiled with an "O=" argument, the object files are not in the source tree, but in the build tree. This patch fixes O= build by looking for object files in the build tree. Fixes: 923e02ecf3f8 ("scripts/tags.sh: Support compiled source") Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-18kbuild: Handle builtin dtb file names containing hyphensJames Hogan
commit 55fe6da9efba102866e2fb5b40b04b6a4b26c19e upstream. cmd_dt_S_dtb constructs the assembly source to incorporate a devicetree FDT (that is, the .dtb file) as binary data in the kernel image. This assembly source contains labels before and after the binary data. The label names incorporate the file name of the corresponding .dtb file. Hyphens are not legal characters in labels, so .dtb files built into the kernel with hyphens in the file name result in errors like the following: bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S: Assembler messages: bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:5: Error: : no such section bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:5: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `-' bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:6: Error: unrecognized opcode `__dtb_bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g_begin:' bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:8: Error: unrecognized opcode `__dtb_bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g_end:' bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:9: Error: : no such section bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:9: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `-' Fix this by updating cmd_dt_S_dtb to transform all hyphens from the file name to underscores when constructing the labels. As of v4.16-rc2, 1139 .dts files across ARM64, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC contain hyphens in their names, but the issue only currently manifests on Broadcom MIPS platforms, as that is the only place where such files are built into the kernel. For example when CONFIG_DT_NETGEAR_CVG834G=y, or on BMIPS kernels when the dtbs target is used (in the latter case it admittedly shouldn't really build all the dtb.o files, but thats a separate issue). Fixes: 695835511f96 ("MIPS: BMIPS: rename bcm96358nb4ser to bcm6358-neufbox4-sercom") Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9+ Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-02-25scripts/kernel-doc: Don't fail with status != 0 if error encountered with -noneWill Deacon
[ Upstream commit e814bccbafece52a24e152d2395b5d49eef55841 ] My bisect scripts starting running into build failures when trying to compile 4.15-rc1 with the builds failing with things like: drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c:2078: error: Cannot parse struct or union! The line in question is actually just a #define, but after some digging it turns out that my scripts pass W=1 and since commit 3a025e1d1c2ea ("Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments") that results in kernel-doc running on each source file. The file in question has a badly formatted comment immediately before the #define: /** * struct brcmf_skbuff_cb reserves first two bytes in sk_buff::cb for * bus layer usage. */ which causes the regex in dump_struct to fail (lack of braces following struct declaration) and kernel-doc returns 1, which causes the build to fail. Fix the issue by always returning 0 from kernel-doc when invoked with -none. It successfully generates no documentation, and prints out any issues. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-02-13module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in moduleAndi Kleen
(cherry picked from commit caf7501a1b4ec964190f31f9c3f163de252273b8) There's a risk that a kernel which has full retpoline mitigations becomes vulnerable when a module gets loaded that hasn't been compiled with the right compiler or the right option. To enable detection of that mismatch at module load time, add a module info string "retpoline" at build time when the module was compiled with retpoline support. This only covers compiled C source, but assembler source or prebuilt object files are not checked. If a retpoline enabled kernel detects a non retpoline protected module at load time, print a warning and report it in the sysfs vulnerability file. [ tglx: Massaged changelog ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: jeyu@kernel.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180125235028.31211-1-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-01-23scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py: fix get_thread_infoXi Kangjie
commit 883d50f56d263f70fd73c0d96b09eb36c34e9305 upstream. Since kernel 4.9, the thread_info has been moved into task_struct, no longer locates at the bottom of kernel stack. See commits c65eacbe290b ("sched/core: Allow putting thread_info into task_struct") and 15f4eae70d36 ("x86: Move thread_info into task_struct"). Before fix: (gdb) set $current = $lx_current() (gdb) p $lx_thread_info($current) $1 = {flags = 1470918301} (gdb) p $current.thread_info $2 = {flags = 2147483648} After fix: (gdb) p $lx_thread_info($current) $1 = {flags = 2147483648} (gdb) p $current.thread_info $2 = {flags = 2147483648} Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180118210159.17223-1-imxikangjie@gmail.com Fixes: 15f4eae70d36 ("x86: Move thread_info into task_struct") Signed-off-by: Xi Kangjie <imxikangjie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Acked-by: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-01-17objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modulesJosh Poimboeuf
commit e390f9a9689a42f477a6073e2e7df530a4c1b740 upstream. The '__unreachable' and '__func_stack_frame_non_standard' sections are only used at compile time. They're discarded for vmlinux but they should also be discarded for modules. Since this is a recurring pattern, prefix the section names with ".discard.". It's a nice convention and vmlinux.lds.h already discards such sections. Also remove the 'a' (allocatable) flag from the __unreachable section since it doesn't make sense for a discarded section. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301180444.lhd53c5tibc4ns77@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [dwmw2: Remove the unreachable part in backporting since it's not here yet] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.ku> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-14coccinelle: fix parallel build with CHECK=scripts/coccicheckMasahiro Yamada
[ Upstream commit d7059ca0147adcd495f3c5b41f260e1ac55bb679 ] The command "make -j8 C=1 CHECK=scripts/coccicheck" produces lots of "coccicheck failed" error messages. Julia Lawall explained the Coccinelle behavior as follows: "The problem on the Coccinelle side is that it uses a subdirectory with the name of the semantic patch to store standard output and standard error for the different threads. I didn't want to use a name with the pid, so that one could easily find this information while Coccinelle is running. Normally the subdirectory is cleaned up when Coccinelle completes, so there is only one of them at a time. Maybe it is best to just add the pid. There is the risk that these subdirectories will accumulate if Coccinelle crashes in a way such that they don't get cleaned up, but Coccinelle could print a warning if it detects this case, rather than failing." When scripts/coccicheck is used as CHECK tool and -j option is given to Make, the whole of build process runs in parallel. So, multiple processes try to get access to the same subdirectory. I notice spatch creates the subdirectory only when it runs in parallel (i.e. --jobs <N> is given and <N> is greater than 1). Setting NPROC=1 is a reasonable solution; spatch does not create the subdirectory. Besides, ONLINE=1 mode takes a single file input for each spatch invocation, so there is no reason to parallelize it in the first place. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-14kbuild: pkg: use --transform option to prefix paths in tarMasahiro Yamada
[ Upstream commit 2dbc644ac62bbcb9ee78e84719953f611be0413d ] For rpm-pkg and deb-pkg, a source tar file is created. All paths in the archive must be prefixed with the base name of the tar so that everything is contained in the directory when you extract it. Currently, scripts/package/Makefile uses a symlink for that, and removes it after the tar is created. If you terminate the build during the tar creation, the symlink is left over. Then, at the next package build, you will see a warning like follows: ln: '.' and 'kernel-4.14.0+/.' are the same file It is possible to fix it by adding -n (--no-dereference) option to the "ln" command, but a cleaner way is to use --transform option of "tar" command. This option is GNU extension, but it should not hurt to use it in the Linux build system. The 'S' flag is needed to exclude symlinks from the path fixup. Without it, symlinks in the kernel are broken. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-14module: set __jump_table alignment to 8David Daney
[ Upstream commit ab42632156becd35d3884ee5c14da2bedbf3149a ] For powerpc the __jump_table section in modules is not aligned, this causes a WARN_ON() splat when loading a module containing a __jump_table. Strict alignment became necessary with commit 3821fd35b58d ("jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key"), currently in linux-next, which uses the two least significant bits of pointers to __jump_table elements. Fix by forcing __jump_table to 8, which is the same alignment used for this section in the kernel proper. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301220453.4756-1-david.daney@cavium.com Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc) Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-21checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warningsCyril Bur
commit 8d81ae05d0176da1c54aeaed697fa34be5c5575e upstream. As of perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) some new warnings have occurred when running checkpatch. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.\s*){ <-- HERE \s*/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3544. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.\s*){ <-- HERE \s*/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3885. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\+.*(?:do|\))){ <-- HERE / at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 4374. It seems perfectly reasonable to do as the warning suggests and simply escape the left brace in these three locations. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607060135.17384-1-cyrilbur@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-12gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7Kees Cook
commit 81d873a87114b05dbb74d1fbf0c4322ba4bfdee4 upstream. This updates gcc-common.h from Emese Revfy for gcc 7. This fixes issues seen by Kugan and Arnd. Build tested with gcc 5.4 and 7 snapshot. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-09kconfig/nconf: Fix hang when editing symbol with a long promptBen Hutchings
commit 79e51b5c2deea542b3bb8c66e0d502230b017dde upstream. Currently it is impossible to edit the value of a config symbol with a prompt longer than (terminal width - 2) characters. dialog_inputbox() calculates a negative x-offset for the input window and newwin() fails as this is invalid. It also doesn't check for this failure, so it busy-loops calling wgetch(NULL) which immediately returns -1. The additions in the offset calculations also don't match the intended size of the window. Limit the window size and calculate the offset similarly to show_scroll_win(). Fixes: 692d97c380c6 ("kconfig: new configuration interface (nconfig)") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-09latent_entropy: fix ARM build error on earlier gccKees Cook
commit 9988f4d577f42f43b7612d755477585f35424af7 upstream. This fixes build errors seen on gcc-4.9.3 or gcc-5.3.1 for an ARM: arm-soc/init/initramfs.c: In function 'error': arm-soc/init/initramfs.c:50:1: error: unrecognizable insn: } ^ (insn 26 25 27 5 (set (reg:SI 111 [ local_entropy.243 ]) (rotatert:SI (reg:SI 116 [ local_entropy.243 ]) (const_int -30 [0xffffffffffffffe2]))) -1 (nil)) Patch from PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-06builddeb: fix cross-building to arm64 producing host-arch debsAdam Borowski
commit 152b695d74376bfe55cd2a6265ccc75b0d39dd19 upstream. Both Debian and kernel archs are "arm64" but UTS_MACHINE and gcc say "aarch64". Recognizing just the latter should be enough but let's accept both in case something regresses again or an user sets UTS_MACHINE=arm64. Regressed in cfa88c7: arm64: Set UTS_MACHINE in the Makefile. Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> Acked-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-12-01kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists earlyNicolas Pitre
Some people are able to trigger a race where autoksyms.h is used before its empty version is even created. Let's create it at the same time as the directory holding it is created. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-11-18Merge branch 'rc-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild Pull kbuild fixes from Michal Marek: "Here are some regression fixes for kbuild: - modversion support for exported asm symbols (Nick Piggin). The affected architectures need separate patches adding asm-prototypes.h. - fix rebuilds of lib-ksyms.o (Nick Piggin) - -fno-PIE builds (Sebastian Siewior and Borislav Petkov). This is not a kernel regression, but one of the Debian gcc package. Nevertheless, it's quite annoying, so I think it should go into mainline and stable now" * 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: kbuild: Steal gcc's pie from the very beginning kbuild: be more careful about matching preprocessed asm ___EXPORT_SYMBOL x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE kbuild: add -fno-PIE kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm kbuild: prevent lib-ksyms.o rebuilds
2016-11-11Merge branch 'maybe-uninitialized' (patches from Arnd)Linus Torvalds
Merge fixes for -Wmaybe-uninitialized from Arnd Bergmann: "It took a while for some patches to make it into mainline through maintainer trees, but the 28-patch series is now reduced to 10, with one tiny patch added at the end. Aside from patches that are no longer required, I did these changes compared to version 1: - Dropped "iio: maxim_thermocouple: detect invalid storage size in read()", which is currently in linux-next as commit 32cb7d27e65d. This is the only remaining warning I see for a couple of corner cases (kbuild bot reports it on blackfin, kernelci bot and arm-soc bot both report it on arm64) - Dropped "brcmfmac: avoid maybe-uninitialized warning in brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap", which is currently in net/master merge pending. - Dropped two x86 patches, "x86: math-emu: possible uninitialized variable use" and "x86: mark target address as output in 'insb' asm" as they do not seem to trigger for a default build, and I got no feedback on them. Both of these are ancient issues and seem harmless, I will send them again to the x86 maintainers once the rest is merged. - Dropped "rbd: false-postive gcc-4.9 -Wmaybe-uninitialized" based on feedback from Ilya Dryomov, who already has a different fix queued up for v4.10. The kbuild bot reports this as a warning for xtensa. - Replaced "crypto: aesni: avoid -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning" with a simpler patch, this one always triggers but my first solution would not be safe for linux-4.9 any more at this point. I'll follow up with the larger patch as a cleanup for 4.10. - Replaced "dib0700: fix nec repeat handling" with a better one, contributed by Sean Young" * -Wmaybe-uninitialized fixes: Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings by default pcmcia: fix return value of soc_pcmcia_regulator_set infiniband: shut up a maybe-uninitialized warning crypto: aesni: shut up -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning rc: print correct variable for z8f0811 dib0700: fix nec repeat handling s390: pci: don't print uninitialized data for debugging nios2: fix timer initcall return value x86: apm: avoid uninitialized data NFSv4.1: work around -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning for "make W=1"
2016-11-11Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings by defaultArnd Bergmann
Previously the warnings were added back at the W=1 level and above, this now turns them on again by default, assuming that we have addressed all warnings and again have a clean build for v4.10. I found a number of new warnings in linux-next already and submitted bugfixes for those. Hopefully they are caught by the 0day builder in the future as soon as this patch is merged. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-11-11Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning for "make W=1"Arnd Bergmann
Traditionally, we have always had warnings about uninitialized variables enabled, as this is part of -Wall, and generally a good idea [1], but it also always produced false positives, mainly because this is a variation of the halting problem and provably impossible to get right in all cases [2]. Various people have identified cases that are particularly bad for false positives, and in commit e74fc973b6e5 ("Turn off -Wmaybe-uninitialized when building with -Os"), I turned off the warning for any build that was done with CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. This drastically reduced the number of false positive warnings in the default build but unfortunately had the side effect of turning the warning off completely in 'allmodconfig' builds, which in turn led to a lot of warnings (both actual bugs, and remaining false positives) to go in unnoticed. With commit 877417e6ffb9 ("Kbuild: change CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE definition") enabled the warning again for allmodconfig builds in v4.7 and in v4.8-rc1, I had finally managed to address all warnings I get in an ARM allmodconfig build and most other maybe-uninitialized warnings for ARM randconfig builds. However, commit 6e8d666e9253 ("Disable "maybe-uninitialized" warning globally") was merged at the same time and disabled it completely for all configurations, because of false-positive warnings on x86 that I had not addressed until then. This caused a lot of actual bugs to get merged into mainline, and I sent several dozen patches for these during the v4.9 development cycle. Most of these are actual bugs, some are for correct code that is safe because it is only called under external constraints that make it impossible to run into the case that gcc sees, and in a few cases gcc is just stupid and finds something that can obviously never happen. I have now done a few thousand randconfig builds on x86 and collected all patches that I needed to address every single warning I got (I can provide the combined patch for the other warnings if anyone is interested), so I hope we can get the warning back and let people catch the actual bugs earlier. This reverts the change to disable the warning completely and for now brings it back at the "make W=1" level, so we can get it merged into mainline without introducing false positives. A follow-up patch enables it on all levels unless some configuration option turns it off because of false-positives. Link: https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=232 [1] Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Better_Uninitialized_Warnings [2] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-11-11scripts/bloat-o-meter: fix SIGPIPEAlexey Dobriyan
Fix piping output to a program which quickly exits (read: head -n1) $ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000 ../obj/vmlinux | head -n1 add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 9/60 up/down: 124/-305 (-181) close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161028204618.GA29923@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-11-09kbuild: be more careful about matching preprocessed asm ___EXPORT_SYMBOLNicholas Piggin
The CRC code for asm exports grabs the preprocessed asm, finds the ___EXPORT_SYMBOL and turns those into EXPORT_SYMBOL in a C program that can be preprocessed and parsed to create the CRC signatures from the type. The existing regex matching and replacement is too strict, and doesn't deal well with whitespace among other things. The line " EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)" in a .S file would not match due to initial whitespace, for example, which resulted in x86's ___preempt_schedule failing to get CRCs. Reported-by: Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-11-09scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIESebastian Andrzej Siewior
Adding -no-PIE to the fstack protector check. -no-PIE was introduced before -fstack-protector so there is no need for a runtime check. Without it the build stops: |Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong available but compiler is broken due to -mcmodel=kernel + -fPIE if -fPIE is enabled by default. Tagging it stable so it is possible to compile recent stable kernels as well. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-11-01kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asmNicholas Piggin
Allow architectures to create asm/asm-prototypes.h file that provides C prototypes for exported asm functions, which enables proper CRC versions to be generated for them. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-10-31latent_entropy: Fix wrong gcc code generation with 64 bit variablesKees Cook
The stack frame size could grow too large when the plugin used long long on 32-bit architectures when the given function had too many basic blocks. The gcc warning was: drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c: In function 'ibmphp_access_ebda': drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c:409:1: warning: the frame size of 1108 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] This switches latent_entropy from u64 to unsigned long. Thanks to PaX Team and Emese Revfy for the patch. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-10-31gcc-plugins: Export symbols needed by gccKees Cook
This explicitly exports symbols that gcc expects from plugins. Based on code from Emese Revfy. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-10-22kbuild: prevent lib-ksyms.o rebuildsNicholas Piggin
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-10-15Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook: "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc). At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals" * tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
2016-10-14Merge branch 'misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek: "Just a few patches on the kbuild.git#misc branch this time: - New Coccinelle patch by Nicholas Mc Guire - Existing patch fixes by Julia Lawall - Minor comment fix by Markus Elfring" * 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: Coccinelle: flag conditions with no effect scripts/coccicheck: Update reference for the corresponding documentation Coccinelle: pm_runtime: ensure relevance of pm_runtime reports Coccinelle: limit memdup_user transformation to GFP_KERNEL case
2016-10-14Merge branch 'kbuild' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek: - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro. This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is working on a patch to fix this. Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely change prototypes. - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick Piggin - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan. - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me. * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits) initramfs: Escape colons in depfile ppc: there is no clear_pages to export powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search ia64: move exports to definitions sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h sparc: move exports to definitions ppc: move exports to definitions arm: move exports to definitions s390: move exports to definitions m68k: move exports to definitions alpha: move exports to actual definitions x86: move exports to actual definitions ...
2016-10-11scripts/tags.sh: enable code completion in VIMMathieu Maret
Vim, with the omnicppcomplete(#1) plugin, can do code completion using information build by ctags. Add flags needed by omnicppcomplete(#2) to have completion on member of structure. 1: https://github.com/vim-scripts/omnicppcomplete 2: https://github.com/vim-scripts/OmniCppComplete/blob/master/doc/omnicppcomplete.txt#L93 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160830191546.4469-1-mathieu.maret@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mathieu Maret <mathieu.maret@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: improve the octal permissions testsJoe Perches
The function calls with octal permissions commonly span multiple lines. The current test is line oriented and fails to find some matches. Make the test use the $stat variable instead of the $line variable to span multiple lines. Also add a few functions to the known functions with permissions list. Move the SYMBOLIC_PERMS test to a separate section to find all the S_<FOO> permissions in any form not just those that have specific function names. This can now find and fix permissions uses like: .mode = S_<FOO> | S_<BAR>; Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b51bab60530912aae4ac420119d465c5b206f19f.1475030406.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Tested-by: Ramiro Oliveira <roliveir@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: add warning for unnamed function definition argumentsJoe Perches
Function definitions without identifiers like int foo(int) are not preferred. Emit a warning when they occur. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94fe6378504745991b650f48fc92bb4648f25706.1474925354.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: improve MACRO_ARG_PRECEDENCE testJoe Perches
It is possible for a multiple line macro definition to have a false positive report when an argument is used on a line after a continuation \. This line might have a leading '+' as the initial character that could be confused by checkpatch as an operator. Avoid the leading character on multiple line macro definitions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/60229d13399f9b6509db5a32e30d4c16951a60cd.1473836073.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: add --strict test for precedence challenged macro argumentsJoe Perches
Add a test for macro arguents that have a non-comma leading or trailing operator where the argument isn't parenthesized to avoid possible precedence issues. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/47715508972f8d786f435e583ff881dbeee3a114.1473745855.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: add --strict test for macro argument reuseJoe Perches
If a macro argument is used multiple times in the macro definition, the macro argument may have an unexpected side-effect. Add a test (MACRO_ARG_REUSE) for that condition which is only emitted with command-line option --strict. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6d67a87cafcafd15499e91780dc63b15dec0aa0.1473744906.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: improve the block comment * alignment testJoe Perches
An "uninitialized value" is emitted when a block comment starts on the same line as a statement. Fix this and make the test use a little fewer cpu cycles too. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c9993320c2182d37f53ac540878cfef59c3f62d.1473365956.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: speed up checking for filenames in sections marked obsoleteJoe Perches
Adding -f to the get_maintainer.pl invocation means git isn't invoked by get_maintainer.pl for known filenames. This reduces the overall time to run checkpatch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/22991e3a295aeb399b43af0478b6e5809106ccee.1472684066.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used from Julia Lawall's listJoe Perches
Using const is generally a good idea. Julia Lawall has created a list of always const and almost always const structs in the kernel sources. Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/28/95 Add the most frequently used (> 50 cases) that are almost always or always const. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1e16020f8027654db0095bbfbcc11da51025365c.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: externalize the structs that should be constJoe Perches
Make it easier to add new structs that should be const. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e5a8da43e7c11525bafbda1ca69a8323614dd942.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: don't test for prefer ether_addr_<foo>Joe Perches
< sigh > Comment these tests out. These are just too enticing to people that don't verify that both source and dest addresses really must be __aligned(2). It helps make Dan Carpenter happy too. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc32ec66d24647f4cdf824c8dfbbc59aa7ce7b7d.1472665676.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Greg <gvrose8192@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: test multiple line block comment alignmentJoe Perches
Warn when block comments are not aligned on the * /* * block comment, no warning */ /* * block comment, emit warning */ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/edb57bd330adfe024b95ec2a807d4aa7f0c8b112.1472261299.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11checkpatch: look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal insteadJoe Perches
S_<FOO> uses should be avoided where octal is more intelligible. Linus didst say: : It's *much* easier to parse and understand the octal numbers, while the : symbolic macro names are just random line noise and hard as hell to : understand. You really have to think about it. : : So we should rather go the other way: convert existing bad symbolic : permission bit macro use to just use the octal numbers. : : The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and the : inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the symbolic : names are just insane crap. Nobody sane should ever use them. Not in the : kernel, not in user space. (http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7232ef011d05a92f4caa86a5e9830d87966a2eaf.1470180926.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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