On 6/25/20 9:26 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > I'm not aware of any immediate bugs in qemu where a second runtime > evaluation of the arguments to MIN() or MAX() causes a problem, but > proactively preventing such abuse is easier than falling prey to an > unintended case down the road. At any rate, here's the conversation > that sparked the current patch: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-12/msg05718.html > > Update the MIN/MAX macros to only evaluate their argument once at > runtime; this uses typeof(1 ? (a) : (b)) to ensure that we are > promoting the temporaries to the same type as the final comparison (we > have to trigger type promotion, as typeof(bitfield) won't compile; and > we can't use typeof((a) + (b)) or even typeof((a) + 0), as some of our > uses of MAX are on void* pointers where such addition is undefined). > > However, we are unable to work around gcc refusing to compile ({}) in > a constant context (such as the array length of a static variable), > even when only used in the dead branch of a __builtin_choose_expr(), > so we have to provide a second macro pair MIN_CONST and MAX_CONST for > use when both arguments are known to be compile-time constants and > where the result must also be usable as a constant; this second form > evaluates arguments multiple times but that doesn't matter for > constants. By using a void expression as the expansion if a > non-constant is presented to this second form, we can enlist the > compiler to ensure the double evaluation is not attempted on > non-constants. > > Alas, as both macros now rely on compiler intrinsics, they are no > longer usable in preprocessor #if conditions; those will just have to > be open-coded or the logic rewritten into #define or runtime 'if' > conditions (but where the compiler dead-code-elimination will probably > still apply). > > I tested that both gcc 10.1.1 and clang 10.0.0 produce errors for all > forms of macro mis-use. As the errors can sometimes be cryptic, I'm > demonstrating the gcc output: > > Use of MIN when MIN_CONST is needed: > > In file included from /home/eblake/qemu/qemu-img.c:25: > /home/eblake/qemu/include/qemu/osdep.h:249:5: error: braced-group within > expression allowed only inside a function > 249 | ({ \ > | ^ > /home/eblake/qemu/qemu-img.c:92:12: note: in expansion of macro ‘MIN’ > 92 | char array[MIN(1, 2)] = ""; > | ^~~ > > Use of MIN_CONST when MIN is needed: > > /home/eblake/qemu/qemu-img.c: In function ‘is_allocated_sectors’: > /home/eblake/qemu/qemu-img.c:1225:15: error: void value not ignored as it > ought to be > 1225 | i = MIN_CONST(i, n); > | ^ > > Use of MIN in the preprocessor: > > In file included from /home/eblake/qemu/accel/tcg/translate-all.c:20: > /home/eblake/qemu/accel/tcg/translate-all.c: In function ‘page_check_range’: > /home/eblake/qemu/include/qemu/osdep.h:249:6: error: token "{" is not valid > in preprocessor expressions > 249 | ({ \ > | ^ > > Fix the resulting callsites that used #if or computed a compile-time > constant min or max to use the new macros. cpu-defs.h is interesting, > as CPU_TLB_DYN_MAX_BITS is sometimes used as a constant and sometimes > dynamic. > > It may be worth improving glib's MIN/MAX definitions to be saner, but > that is a task for another day. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> r~