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Message-ID: <20221019165455.GL25951@gate.crashing.org>
Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2022 11:54:55 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-toolchains@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: treat char as always signed

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 10:26:48AM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Recently, some compile-time checking I added to the clamp_t family of
> functions triggered a build error when a poorly written driver was
> compiled on ARM, because the driver assumed that the naked `char` type
> is signed, but ARM treats it as unsigned, and the C standard says it's
> architecture-dependent.

> So let's just eliminate this particular variety of heisensigned bugs
> entirely. Set `-fsigned-char` globally, so that gcc makes the type
> signed on all architectures.

This is an ABI change.  It is also hugely detrimental to generated
code quality on architectures that make the saner choice (that is, have
most instructions zero-extend byte quantities).

Instead, don't actively disable the compiler warnings that catch such
cases?  So start with removing footguns like

  # disable pointer signed / unsigned warnings in gcc 4.0
  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign


Segher

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