include/linux/compiler.h: don't perform compiletime_assert with -O0
authorJoe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:15:33 +0000 (16:15 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:33:15 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
commitc03567a8e8d5cf2aaca40e605c48f319dc2ead57
tree9dffd4bbddc275c9e662ca510cf5e680ae3b1f7a
parentc461ad6a63b37ba74632e90c063d14823c884247
include/linux/compiler.h: don't perform compiletime_assert with -O0

Commit c7acec713d14 ("kernel.h: handle pointers to arrays better in
container_of()") made use of __compiletime_assert() from container_of()
thus increasing the usage of this macro, allowing developers to notice
type conflicts in usage of container_of() at compile time.

However, the implementation of __compiletime_assert relies on compiler
optimizations to report an error.  This means that if a developer uses
"-O0" with any code that performs container_of(), the compiler will always
report an error regardless of whether there is an actual problem in the
code.

This patch disables compile_time_assert when optimizations are disabled to
allow such code to compile with CFLAGS="-O0".

Example compilation failure:

./include/linux/compiler.h:547:38: error: call to `__compiletime_assert_94' declared with attribute error: pointer type mismatch in container_of()
  _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __LINE__)
                                      ^
./include/linux/compiler.h:530:4: note: in definition of macro `__compiletime_assert'
    prefix ## suffix();    \
    ^~~~~~
./include/linux/compiler.h:547:2: note: in expansion of macro `_compiletime_assert'
  _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __LINE__)
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/build_bug.h:46:37: note: in expansion of macro `compiletime_assert'
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(cond, msg) compiletime_assert(!(cond), msg)
                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/kernel.h:860:2: note: in expansion of macro `BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG'
  BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(!__same_type(*(ptr), ((type *)0)->member) && \
  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use do{}while(0), per Michal]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170829230114.11662-1-joe@ovn.org
Fixes: c7acec713d14c6c ("kernel.h: handle pointers to arrays better in container_of()")
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/compiler.h