linux/scripts/basic/fixdep.c

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fixdep: check return value of printf() and putchar() When there is not enough space on your storage device, the build will fail with 'No space left on device' error message. The reason is obvious from the message, so you will free up some disk space, then you will resume the build. However, sometimes you may still see a mysterious error message: unterminated call to function 'wildcard': missing ')'. If you run out of the disk space, fixdep may end up with generating incomplete .*.cmd files. For example, if the disk-full error occurs while fixdep is running print_dep(), the .*.cmd might be truncated like this: $(wildcard include/config/ When you run 'make' next time, this broken .*.cmd will be included, then Make will terminate parsing since it is a wrong syntax. Once this happens, you need to run 'make clean' or delete the broken .*.cmd file manually. Even if you do not see any error message, the .*.cmd files after any error could be potentially incomplete, and unreliable. You may miss the re-compilation due to missing header dependency. If printf() cannot output the string for disk shortage or whatever reason, it returns a negative value, but currently fixdep does not check it at all. Consequently, fixdep *successfully* generates a broken .*.cmd file. Make never notices that since fixdep exits with 0, which means success. Given the intended usage of fixdep, it must respect the return value of not only malloc(), but also printf() and putchar(). This seems a long-standing issue since the introduction of fixdep. In old days, Kbuild tried to provide an extra safety by letting fixdep output to a temporary file and renaming it after everything is done: scripts/basic/fixdep $(depfile) $@ '$(make-cmd)' > $(dot-target).tmp;\ rm -f $(depfile); \ mv -f $(dot-target).tmp $(dot-target).cmd) It was no help to avoid the current issue; fixdep successfully created a truncated tmp file, which would be renamed to a .*.cmd file. This problem should be fixed by propagating the error status to the build system because: [1] Since commit 9c2af1c7377a ("kbuild: add .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target"), Make will delete the target automatically on any failure in the recipe. [2] Since commit 392885ee82d3 ("kbuild: let fixdep directly write to .*.cmd files"), .*.cmd file is included only when the corresponding target already exists. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-06-25 15:54:19 +09:00
modpost,fixdep: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-05-07 13:56:01 -05:00