From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
commit 3c047057d1206ec0f3b88c7809cacba478067a0c upstream.
When CONFIG_BUG is disabled, BUG_ON() will only evaluate the condition, but will not actually stop the current thread. GCC warns about a couple of BUG_ON() users where this actually leads to further undefined behavior:
include/linux/ceph/osdmap.h: In function 'ceph_can_shift_osds': include/linux/ceph/osdmap.h:54:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function fs/ext4/inode.c: In function 'ext4_map_blocks': fs/ext4/inode.c:548:5: warning: 'retval' may be used uninitialized in this function drivers/mfd/db8500-prcmu.c: In function 'prcmu_config_clkout': drivers/mfd/db8500-prcmu.c:762:10: warning: 'div_mask' may be used uninitialized in this function drivers/mfd/db8500-prcmu.c:769:13: warning: 'mask' may be used uninitialized in this function drivers/mfd/db8500-prcmu.c:757:7: warning: 'bits' may be used uninitialized in this function drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c: In function 'univ8250_release_irq': drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:252:18: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in this function drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:235:19: note: 'i' was declared here
There is an obvious conflict of interest here: on the one hand, someone who disables CONFIG_BUG() will want the kernel to be as small as possible and doesn't care about printing error messages to a console that nobody looks at. On the other hand, running into a BUG_ON() condition means that something has gone wrong, and we probably want to also stop doing things that might cause data corruption.
This patch picks the second choice, and changes the NOP to BUG(), which normally stops the execution of the current thread in some form (endless loop or a trap). This follows the logic we applied in a4b5d580e078 ("bug: Make BUG() always stop the machine").
For ARM multi_v7_defconfig, the size slightly increases:
section CONFIG_BUG=y CONFIG_BUG=n CONFIG_BUG=n+patch
.text 8320248 | 8180944 | 8207688 .rodata 3633720 | 3567144 | 3570648 __bug_table 32508 | --- | --- __modver 692 | 1584 | 2176 .init.text 558132 | 548300 | 550088 .exit.text 12380 | 12256 | 12380 .data 1016672 | 1016064 | 1016128 Total 14622556 | 14374510 | 14407326
So instead of saving 1.70% of the total image size, we only save 1.48% by turning off CONFIG_BUG, but in return we can ensure that we don't run into cases of uninitialized variable or return code uses when something bad happens. Aside from that, we significantly reduce the number of warnings in randconfig builds, which makes it easier to fix the warnings about other problems.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- include/asm-generic/bug.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/asm-generic/bug.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/bug.h @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ extern void warn_slowpath_null(const cha #endif
#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_BUG_ON -#define BUG_ON(condition) do { if (condition) ; } while (0) +#define BUG_ON(condition) do { if (condition) BUG(); } while (0) #endif
#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_WARN_ON