[PATCH v2] gas: fix building tc-bpf.c on s390x

Jose E. Marchesi jose.marchesi@oracle.com
Wed May 3 13:44:49 GMT 2023


> On 03.05.2023 14:02, Ilya Leoshkevich wrote:
>> char is unsigned on s390x, so there are a lot of warnings like:
>> 
>>     gas/config/tc-bpf.c: In function 'get_token':
>>     gas/config/tc-bpf.c:900:14: error: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Werror=type-limits]
>>       900 |       if (ch == EOF || len > MAX_TOKEN_SZ)
>>           |              ^~
>> 
>> Change its type to int, like in the other similar code.
>> 
>> There is also:
>> 
>>     gas/config/tc-bpf.c:735:30: error: 'bpf_endianness' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>       735 |    dst, be ? size[endianness - BPF_BE16] : size[endianness - BPF_LE16]);
>>           |                   ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
>> 
>> -Wmaybe-uninitialized doesn't seem to understand the FSM; just
>> initialize bpf_endianness to silence it.  Add an assertion to
>> build_bpf_endianness() in order to catch potential bugs.
>> ---
>> 
>> v1: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2023-April/127235.html
>> v1 -> v2: Change signed char to int (Jan).
>>           Add an assertion.
>
> Looks okay to me now, but will want Jose's approval.

I'm OK with the patch.

Thanks Ilya for looking into this.  I'm currently in a whirpool of work,
but I plan to revisit both lexer and parser soon to simplify the
implementation.

> I'm a little puzzled, btw, why e.g. bpf_atomic_insn doesn't also expose
> a "maybe uninitialized" warning.
>
> Jan
>
>> --- a/gas/config/tc-bpf.c
>> +++ b/gas/config/tc-bpf.c
>> @@ -730,6 +730,8 @@ build_bpf_endianness (char *dst, enum bpf_token_type endianness)
>>        || endianness == BPF_LE32
>>        || endianness == BPF_LE64)
>>      be = 0;
>> +  else
>> +    gas_assert (endianness == BPF_BE16 || endianness == BPF_BE32 || endianness == BPF_BE64);
>>  
>>    bpf_insn = xasprintf ("%s %%%s,%s", be ? "endbe" : "endle",
>>  			dst, be ? size[endianness - BPF_BE16] : size[endianness - BPF_LE16]);
>> @@ -885,7 +887,7 @@ get_token (const char **insn, char *token, size_t *tlen)
>>      } while (0)
>>  
>>    const char *str = *insn;
>> -  char ch, ch2 = 0;
>> +  int ch, ch2 = 0;
>>    enum bpf_token_type ttype = BPF_UNKNOWN;
>>    size_t len = 0;
>>    const char *expr = NULL;
>> @@ -1362,7 +1364,7 @@ bpf_pseudoc_to_normal_syntax (const char *str, char **errmsg)
>>      } while (0)
>>  
>>    enum bpf_token_type ttype;
>> -  enum bpf_token_type bpf_endianness,
>> +  enum bpf_token_type bpf_endianness = BPF_UNKNOWN,
>>  		      bpf_atomic_insn;
>>    enum bpf_token_type bpf_jmp_op = BPF_JEQ; /* Arbitrary.  */
>>    enum bpf_token_type bpf_cast = BPF_CAST_U8; /* Arbitrary.  */


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