netdev - Re: [PATCH] xsk: Properly terminate assignment in xskq_produce_flush

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:32:42 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        xdp-newbies@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xsk: Properly terminate assignment in xskq_produce_flush_desc

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:24 AM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Clang warns:
>
> In file included from net/xdp/xsk_queue.c:10:
> net/xdp/xsk_queue.h:292:2: warning: expression result unused
> [-Wunused-value]
>         WRITE_ONCE(q->ring->producer, q->prod_tail);
>         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/compiler.h:284:6: note: expanded from macro 'WRITE_ONCE'
>         __u.__val;                                      \
>         ~~~ ^~~~~
> 1 warning generated.
>
> The q->prod_tail assignment has a comma at the end, not a semi-colon.
> Fix that so clang no longer warns and everything works as expected.

oh no! -Wunderhanded-C-contest-style-use-of-comma-operator strikes again!
Great find and thanks for the fix.
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

Björn and Alexei should carefully review.  Because WRITE_ONCE is a
macro that expands to a GNU C statement expression, which returns the
last statement, this code was previously assigning q->prod_tail to
itself, now it's assigning it to q->prod_head.  I assume that was not
intentional, but am unfamiliar with the code.

>
> Fixes: c497176cb2e4 ("xsk: add Rx receive functions and poll support")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/544
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/xdp/xsk_queue.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/xdp/xsk_queue.h b/net/xdp/xsk_queue.h
> index 88b9ae24658d..cba4a640d5e8 100644
> --- a/net/xdp/xsk_queue.h
> +++ b/net/xdp/xsk_queue.h
> @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static inline void xskq_produce_flush_desc(struct xsk_queue *q)
>         /* Order producer and data */
>         smp_wmb(); /* B, matches C */
>
> -       q->prod_tail = q->prod_head,
> +       q->prod_tail = q->prod_head;
>         WRITE_ONCE(q->ring->producer, q->prod_tail);
>  }
>
> --
> 2.22.0
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers