linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: drop port I/O helpers for CONFIG_HAS

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Message-ID: <875xwfb2ov.fsf@mail.lhotse>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:33:04 +1000
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Naresh Kamboju
 <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev
 <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, "Aneesh Kumar K . V"
 <aneesh.kumar@...nel.org>, Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>, Kees
 Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>,
 clang-built-linux <llvm@...ts.linux.dev>, Nick Desaulniers
 <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Jeff Xu
 <jeffxu@...omium.org>, "Naveen N . Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com>, Dan
 Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, Bill Wendling
 <morbo@...gle.com>, Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>, Baoquan He
 <bhe@...hat.com>, "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: drop port I/O helpers for CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=n

Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> writes:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> writes:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>>
>> Calling inb()/outb() on powerpc when CONFIG_PCI is disabled causes
>> a NULL pointer dereference, which is bad for a number of reasons.
>>
>> After my patch to turn on -Werror in linux-next, this caused a
>> compiler-time warning with clang:
>>
>> In file included from arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h:672:
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/io-defs.h:43:1: error: performing pointer
>> arithmetic on a null pointer has undefined behavior
>> [-Werror,-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]
>>    43 | DEF_PCI_AC_NORET(insb, (unsigned long p, void *b, unsigned long c),
>>       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>    44 |                  (p, b, c), pio, p)
>>       |                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> In this configuration, CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT is already disabled, and all
>> drivers that use inb()/outb() should now depend on that (some patches are
>> still in the process of getting marged).
>>
>> Hide all references to inb()/outb() in the powerpc code and the definitions
>> when HAS_IOPORT is disabled to remove the possible NULL pointer access.
>> The same should happin in asm-generic in the near future, but for now
>> the empty inb() macros are still defined to ensure the generic version
>> does not get pulled in.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
>> --
>
> This needs a small fixup:

Well, only because my tree doesn't have f0a816fb12da ("/dev/port: don't compile file operations without CONFIG_DEVPORT").

cheers