On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 01:08:52PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> It appears that compilers have trouble with nested statements
> expressions, as such make the data_race() macro be only a single
> statement expression. This will help us avoid potential problems in
> future as its usage increases.
> 
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
> ---
> v2:
> * Add patch to series in response to above linked discussion.
> ---
>  include/linux/compiler.h | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
> index 7444f026eead..1f9bd9f35368 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
> @@ -211,12 +211,11 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, 
> int val,
>   */
>  #define data_race(expr)                                                      
> \
>  ({                                                                   \
> +     __unqual_scalar_typeof(({ expr; })) __v;                        \
>       __kcsan_disable_current();                                      \
> -     ({                                                              \
> -             __unqual_scalar_typeof(({ expr; })) __v = ({ expr; });  \
> -             __kcsan_enable_current();                               \
> -             __v;                                                    \
> -     });                                                             \
> +     __v = ({ expr; });                                              \
> +     __kcsan_enable_current();                                       \
> +     __v;                                                            \

Hopefully it doesn't matter, but this will run into issues with 'const'
non-scalar expressions.

Will

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