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| author | Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> | 2015-12-29 12:18:46 +0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-02-23 19:59:53 -0800 |
| commit | ad315455d396a1cbcb2f9fdd687b7e1b26b789e7 (patch) | |
| tree | ec1d39c7dda0349ac5a29cbcb5c02a43532dd61d /include/linux/compiler.h | |
| parent | 1914aab54319ed70608078df4f18ac4767753977 (diff) | |
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sparse: Add __private to privatize members of structs
In C programming language, we don't have a easy way to privatize a
member of a structure. However in kernel, sometimes there is a need to
privatize a member in case of potential bugs or misuses.
Fortunately, the noderef attribute of sparse is a way to privatize a
member, as by defining a member as noderef, the address-of operator on
the member will produce a noderef pointer to that member, and if anyone
wants to dereference that kind of pointers to read or modify the member,
sparse will yell.
Based on this, __private modifier and related operation ACCESS_PRIVATE()
are introduced, which could help detect undesigned public uses of
private members of structs. Here is an example of sparse's output if it
detect an undersigned public use:
| kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different modifiers)
| kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: expected struct raw_spinlock [usertype] *lock
| kernel/rcu/tree.c:4453:25: got struct raw_spinlock [noderef] *<noident>
Also, this patch improves compiler.h a little bit by adding comments for
"#else" and "#endif".
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 00b042c49ccd..c845356952bb 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ # define __pmem __attribute__((noderef, address_space(5))) #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER # define __rcu __attribute__((noderef, address_space(4))) -#else +#else /* CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER */ # define __rcu -#endif +#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER */ +# define __private __attribute__((noderef)) extern void __chk_user_ptr(const volatile void __user *); extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *); -#else +# define ACCESS_PRIVATE(p, member) (*((typeof((p)->member) __force *) &(p)->member)) +#else /* __CHECKER__ */ # define __user # define __kernel # define __safe @@ -44,7 +46,9 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *); # define __percpu # define __rcu # define __pmem -#endif +# define __private +# define ACCESS_PRIVATE(p, member) ((p)->member) +#endif /* __CHECKER__ */ /* Indirect macros required for expanded argument pasting, eg. __LINE__. */ #define ___PASTE(a,b) a##b |