From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:14:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] disable -Wattribute-alias warning for SYSCALL_DEFINEx() gcc-8 warns for every single definition of a system call entry point, e.g.: include/linux/compat.h:56:18: error: 'compat_sys_rt_sigprocmask' alias between functions of incompatible types 'long int(int, compat_sigset_t *, compat_sigset_t *, compat_size_t)' {aka 'long int(int, struct *, struct *, unsigned int)'} and 'long int(long int, long int, long int, long int)' [-Werror=attribute-alias] asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))\ ^~~~~~~~~~ include/linux/compat.h:45:2: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx' COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(4, _##name, __VA_ARGS__) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kernel/signal.c:2601:1: note: in expansion of macro 'COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4' COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_sigprocmask, int, how, compat_sigset_t __user *, nset, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ include/linux/compat.h:60:18: note: aliased declaration here asmlinkage long compat_SyS##name(__MAP(x,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__))\ ^~~~~~~~~~ The new warning seems reasonable in principle, but it doesn't help us here, since we rely on the type mismatch to sanitize the system call arguments. After I reported this as GCC PR82435, a new -Wno-attribute-alias option was added that could be used to turn the warning off globally on the command line, but I'd prefer to do it a little more fine-grained. Interestingly, turning a warning off and on again inside of a single macro doesn't always work, in this case I had to add an extra statement inbetween and decided to copy the __SC_TEST one from the native syscall to the compat syscall macro. See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83256 for more details about this. [paul.burton@mips.com: - Rebase atop current master. - Split GCC & version arguments to __diag_ignore() in order to match changes to the preceding patch. - Add the comment argument to match the preceding patch.] Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82435 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Paul Burton Tested-by: Christophe Leroy Tested-by: Stafford Horne Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- --- a/include/linux/compat.h +++ b/include/linux/compat.h @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(6, _##name, __VA_ARGS__) #define COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, name, ...) \ + __diag_push(); \ + __diag_ignore(GCC, 8, "-Wattribute-alias", \ + "Type aliasing is used to sanitize syscall arguments");\ asmlinkage long compat_sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__))\ __attribute__((alias(__stringify(compat_SyS##name)))); \ static inline long C_SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__));\ @@ -55,6 +58,7 @@ { \ return C_SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DELOUSE,__VA_ARGS__)); \ } \ + __diag_pop(); \ static inline long C_SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__)) #ifndef compat_user_stack_pointer --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ extern struct trace_event_functions exit #define __PROTECT(...) asmlinkage_protect(__VA_ARGS__) #define __SYSCALL_DEFINEx(x, name, ...) \ + __diag_push(); \ + __diag_ignore(GCC, 8, "-Wattribute-alias", \ + "Type aliasing is used to sanitize syscall arguments");\ asmlinkage long sys##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__)) \ __attribute__((alias(__stringify(SyS##name)))); \ static inline long SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__)); \ @@ -203,6 +206,7 @@ extern struct trace_event_functions exit __PROTECT(x, ret,__MAP(x,__SC_ARGS,__VA_ARGS__)); \ return ret; \ } \ + __diag_pop(); \ static inline long SYSC##name(__MAP(x,__SC_DECL,__VA_ARGS__)) asmlinkage long sys32_quotactl(unsigned int cmd, const char __user *special,