linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] smp: fix smp_call_function_single

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Date:   Thu, 29 Apr 2021 11:39:03 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, Jian Cai <jiancai@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smp: fix smp_call_function_single_async prototype

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:27 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Either way, I'll give it some more time on the randconfig build machine
> before I send out v2.

SGTM and thanks for the fix.  Perhaps worth a note that this isn't
just "a violation of the calling conventions" but straight up
undefined behavior, full stop.

UBSAN folks are working on adding a catch for this as well:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D100037, see the relevant citations from the
standard.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers