linux-kernel - [PATCH] kernel.h: Add for_each

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon,  9 Jul 2018 18:25:09 +0200
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>, Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com>,
        Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yisheng Xie <ysxie@...mail.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kernel.h: Add for_each_if()

To avoid compilers complainig about ambigious else blocks when putting
an if condition into a for_each macro one needs to invert the
condition and add a dummy else. We have a nice little convenience
macro for that in drm headers, let's move it out. Subsequent patches
will roll it out to other places.

The issue the compilers complain about are nested if with an else
block and no {} to disambiguate which if the else belongs to. The C
standard is clear, but in practice people forget:

if (foo)
	if (bar)
		/* something */
	else
		/* something else

The same can happen in a for_each macro when it also contains an if
condition at the end, except the compiler message is now really
confusing since there's only 1 if:

for_each_something()
	if (bar)
		/* something */
	else
		/* something else

The for_each_if() macro, by inverting the condition and adding an
else, avoids the compiler warning.

Motivated by a discussion with Andy and Yisheng, who want to add
another for_each_macro which would benefit from for_each_if() instead
of hand-rolling it.

Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc: Wei Wang <wvw@...gle.com>
Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Yisheng Xie <ysxie@...mail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
--
v2: Explain a bit better what this is good for, after the discussion
with Peter Z.
---
 include/drm/drmP.h     | 3 ---
 include/linux/kernel.h | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/drm/drmP.h b/include/drm/drmP.h
index f7a19c2a7a80..05350424a4d3 100644
--- a/include/drm/drmP.h
+++ b/include/drm/drmP.h
@@ -110,7 +110,4 @@ static inline bool drm_can_sleep(void)
 	return true;
 }
 
-/* helper for handling conditionals in various for_each macros */
-#define for_each_if(condition) if (!(condition)) {} else
-
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 941dc0a5a877..4cb95ab9a5bc 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@
  */
 #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]) + __must_be_array(arr))
 
+/* helper for handling conditionals in various for_each macros */
+#define for_each_if(condition) if (!(condition)) {} else
+
 #define u64_to_user_ptr(x) (		\
 {					\
 	typecheck(u64, x);		\
-- 
2.18.0