From: Johannes Berg Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:16:00 +0000 (+0200) Subject: locking/barriers: Don't use sizeof(void) in lockless_dereference() X-Git-Tag: v4.8-rc7~28^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?p=cascardo%2Flinux.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7127b5e5fa0551be21b86640f1648b224e36d43 locking/barriers: Don't use sizeof(void) in lockless_dereference() My previous commit: 112dc0c8069e ("locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()") caused sparse to complain that (in radix-tree.h) we use sizeof(void) since that rcu_dereference()s a void *. Really, all we need is to have the expression *p in here somewhere to make sure p is a pointer type, and sizeof(*p) was the thing that came to my mind first to make sure that's done without really doing anything at runtime. Another thing I had considered was using typeof(*p), but obviously we can't just declare a typeof(*p) variable either, since that may end up being void. Declaring a variable as typeof(*p)* gets around that, and still checks that typeof(*p) is valid, so do that. This type construction can't be done for _________p1 because that will actually be used and causes sparse address space warnings, so keep a separate unused variable for it. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul E . McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: kbuild-all@01.org Fixes: 112dc0c8069e ("locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472192160-4049-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index 436aa4e42221..668569844d37 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -527,13 +527,14 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s * object's lifetime is managed by something other than RCU. That * "something other" might be reference counting or simple immortality. * - * The seemingly unused size_t variable is to validate @p is indeed a pointer - * type by making sure it can be dereferenced. + * The seemingly unused variable ___typecheck_p validates that @p is + * indeed a pointer type by using a pointer to typeof(*p) as the type. + * Taking a pointer to typeof(*p) again is needed in case p is void *. */ #define lockless_dereference(p) \ ({ \ typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \ - size_t __maybe_unused __size_of_ptr = sizeof(*(p)); \ + typeof(*(p)) *___typecheck_p __maybe_unused; \ smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \ (_________p1); \ })