linux-kernel - Re: Conflict between sparse and commit cafa0010cd51f ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to 4.6")

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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdmuXydQsQyD2CUyoSkkDpF1e1CXg6v1SRv2q-bpYa9SQg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 10:22:56 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     christophe.leroy@....fr
Cc:     joe@...ches.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org, sparse@...isli.org
Subject: Re: Conflict between sparse and commit cafa0010cd51f ("Raise the
 minimum required gcc version to 4.6")

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 7:34 AM Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@....fr> wrote:
>
> Cc linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org
>
> Le 07/09/2018 à 14:22, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
> > Since commit cafa0010cd51f ("Raise the minimum required gcc version to
> > 4.6"), sparse check fails as follows:
> >
> > [root@...6082vm linux-powerpc]# make C=2 arch/powerpc/kernel/process.o
> >    CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> >    CHECK   scripts/mod/empty.c
> > ./include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:14:3: error: Sorry, your compiler is too
> > old - please upgrade it.
> >    CHECK   arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > ./include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:14:3: error: Sorry, your compiler is too
> > old - please upgrade it.
> >
> >
> > I have sparse version 0.5.2
> >
> > What can be done to fix that ?
> >
> > Christophe

Oof, sorry Christophe.  Looks like that's the latest version of sparse:
https://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page#News

I'm curious what sparse expands __GNUC__, __GNUC_MINOR__, and
__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__ to?  Pre commit cafa0010cd51f, it MUST be
expanding them to something, otherwise you'd have seen the error then,
too.  The previous check was GCC < 3.3, now it's GCC < 4.6.

We could change the check to:

-#if GCC_VERSION < 40600
+#if GCC_VERSION < 40600 && !defined(__CHECKER__)

But it would be good to know what those sub macros that compose
GCC_VERSION evaluate to in sparse; maybe they can be upgraded in
Sparse unless they're matching __builtin_*() compatability?
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers