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Linus Torvalds 8cefae8c40 gpiolib: acpi: use correct format characters
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When compiling with -Wformat, clang emits the following warning:

  gpiolib-acpi.c:393:4: warning: format specifies type 'unsigned char' but the argument has type 'int' [-Wformat]
                        pin);
                        ^~~

So warning that '%hhX' is paired with an 'int' is all just completely
mindless and wrong. Sadly, I can see a different bogus warning reason
why people would want to use '%02hhX'.

Again, the *sane* thing from a human perspective is to use '%02X. But
if the compiler doesn't do any range analysis at all, it could decide
that "Oh, that print format could need up to 8 bytes of space in the
result". Using '%02hhX' would cut that down to two.

And since we use

        char ev_name[5];

and currently use "_%c%02hhX" as the format string, even a compiler
that doesn't notice that "pin <= 255" test that guards this all will
go "OK, that's at most 4 bytes and the final NUL termination, so it's
fine".

While a compiler - like gcc - that only sees that the original source
of the 'pin' value is a 'unsigned short' array, and then doesn't take
the "pin <= 255" into account, will warn like this:

  gpiolib-acpi.c: In function 'acpi_gpiochip_request_interrupt':
  gpiolib-acpi.c:206:24: warning: '%02X' directive writing between 2 and 4 bytes into a region of size 3 [-Wformat-overflow=]
       sprintf(ev_name, "_%c%02X",
                            ^~~~
  gpiolib-acpi.c:206:20: note: directive argument in the range [0, 65535]

because gcc isn't being very good at that argument range analysis either.

In other words, the original use of 'hhx' was bogus to begin with, and
due to *another* compiler warning being bad, and we had that bad code
being written back in 2016 to work around _that_ compiler warning
(commit e40a3ae1f7: "gpio: acpi: work around false-positive
-Wstring-overflow warning").

Sadly, two different bad compiler warnings together does not make for
one good one.

It just makes for even more pain.

End result: I think the simplest and cleanest option is simply the
proposed change which undoes that '%hhX' change for gcc, and replaces
it with just using a slightly bigger stack allocation. It's not like
a 5-byte allocation is in any way likely to have saved any actual stack,
since all the other variables in that function are 'int' or bigger.

False-positive compiler warnings really do make people write worse
code, and that's a problem. But on a scale of bad code, I feel that
extending the buffer trivially is better than adding a pointless cast
that literally makes no sense.

At least in this case the end result isn't unreadable or buggy. We've
had several cases of bad compiler warnings that caused changes that
were actually horrendously wrong.

Fixes: e40a3ae1f7 ("gpio: acpi: work around false-positive -Wstring-overflow warning")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-04-20 09:19:35 +02:00
arch cpuidle: PSCI: Move the has_lpi check to the beginning of the function 2022-04-15 14:18:41 +02:00
block Revert "Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges"" 2022-04-15 14:18:23 +02:00
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crypto crypto: authenc - Fix sleep in atomic context in decrypt_tail 2022-04-15 14:18:04 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: spi: mxic: The interrupt property is not mandatory 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
drivers gpiolib: acpi: use correct format characters 2022-04-20 09:19:35 +02:00
fs io_uring: fix fs->users overflow 2022-04-15 14:18:41 +02:00
include net/sched: flower: fix parsing of ethertype following VLAN header 2022-04-20 09:19:34 +02:00
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ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel cgroup: Use open-time cgroup namespace for process migration perm checks 2022-04-15 14:18:41 +02:00
lib lz4: fix LZ4_decompress_safe_partial read out of bound 2022-04-15 14:18:39 +02:00
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samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins/stackleak: Exactly match strings instead of prefixes 2022-04-15 14:18:22 +02:00
security Fix incorrect type in assignment of ipv6 port for audit 2022-04-15 14:18:22 +02:00
sound ASoC: topology: Allow TLV control to be either read or write 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
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