Patch "llist: clang: introduce member_address_is_nonnull()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    llist: clang: introduce member_address_is_nonnull()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     llist-clang-introduce-member_address_is_nonnull.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From beaec533fc2701a28a4d667f67c9f59c6e4e0d13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:27:30 +0200
Subject: llist: clang: introduce member_address_is_nonnull()

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>

commit beaec533fc2701a28a4d667f67c9f59c6e4e0d13 upstream.

Currently llist_for_each_entry() and llist_for_each_entry_safe() iterate
until &pos->member != NULL.  But when building the kernel with Clang,
the compiler assumes &pos->member cannot be NULL if the member's offset
is greater than 0 (which would be equivalent to the object being
non-contiguous in memory).  Therefore the loop condition is always true,
and the loops become infinite.

To work around this, introduce the member_address_is_nonnull() macro,
which casts object pointer to uintptr_t, thus letting the member pointer
to be NULL.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Tested-by: Sodagudi Prasad <psodagud@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/llist.h |   21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/llist.h
+++ b/include/linux/llist.h
@@ -88,6 +88,23 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struc
 	container_of(ptr, type, member)
 
 /**
+ * member_address_is_nonnull - check whether the member address is not NULL
+ * @ptr:	the object pointer (struct type * that contains the llist_node)
+ * @member:	the name of the llist_node within the struct.
+ *
+ * This macro is conceptually the same as
+ *	&ptr->member != NULL
+ * but it works around the fact that compilers can decide that taking a member
+ * address is never a NULL pointer.
+ *
+ * Real objects that start at a high address and have a member at NULL are
+ * unlikely to exist, but such pointers may be returned e.g. by the
+ * container_of() macro.
+ */
+#define member_address_is_nonnull(ptr, member)	\
+	((uintptr_t)(ptr) + offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), member) != 0)
+
+/**
  * llist_for_each - iterate over some deleted entries of a lock-less list
  * @pos:	the &struct llist_node to use as a loop cursor
  * @node:	the first entry of deleted list entries
@@ -121,7 +138,7 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struc
  */
 #define llist_for_each_entry(pos, node, member)				\
 	for ((pos) = llist_entry((node), typeof(*(pos)), member);	\
-	     &(pos)->member != NULL;					\
+	     member_address_is_nonnull(pos, member);			\
 	     (pos) = llist_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member))
 
 /**
@@ -143,7 +160,7 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struc
  */
 #define llist_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, node, member)			       \
 	for (pos = llist_entry((node), typeof(*pos), member);		       \
-	     &pos->member != NULL &&					       \
+	     member_address_is_nonnull(pos, member) &&			       \
 	        (n = llist_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*n), member), true); \
 	     pos = n)
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from glider@google.com are

queue-4.9/llist-clang-introduce-member_address_is_nonnull.patch