From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=embeddedor.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help: List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=o6HouBgCeARvPDycxq+DQL9GTuV0FZaznhFf+B5lvvQ=; b=RC17bKQEy60oNUOsP9/+FoFba3 7IOvK7tatxfYFulfXrzo1R1inJiR70+fGm96EOiyxuGoF10JW8F/HPs+jPpuI495euTAFQHufGSAV KFk2OzUW7hWgtf7v4LM6Poy7NupLGz6fEDbexZ2hS8wrxAWAlGQM9lxjgUTuzQh4+AEwwhtM/J+sO AoW8/bIYU33TR8wm0Dkj1ZL5b4OT77sQWi2RWgP14r2tlNn5M1PdILrguUL1Nl2Hy0yV5KIqCCVAo j0nfxV1qHzIcwVylK9t1AWmoK15QajwvXxprFA+S9YfES+wOdY+ET5oNf4zzGyJ24cDNT8LjZrCcC nhh+2ALA==; References: <20201120105344.4345c14e@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Message-ID: <4609d49b-4dd3-c017-b76e-a8a536871c05@embeddedor.com> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:04:55 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201120105344.4345c14e@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH 000/141] Fix fall-through warnings for Clang List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jakub Kicinski , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Nathan Chancellor , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, GR-everest-linux-l2@marvell.com, wcn36xx@lists.infradead.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-i3c@lists.infradead.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, Nick Desaulniers , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Miguel Ojeda , tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-geode@lists.infradead.org, linux-can@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, op-tee@lists.trustedfirmware.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com, Kees Cook , linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, patches@opensource.cirrus.com, Joe Perches , linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 11/20/20 12:53, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:21:39 -0600 Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: >> This series aims to fix almost all remaining fall-through warnings in >> order to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang. >> >> In preparation to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang, explicitly >> add multiple break/goto/return/fallthrough statements instead of just >> letting the code fall through to the next case. >> >> Notice that in order to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang, this >> change[1] is meant to be reverted at some point. So, this patch helps >> to move in that direction. >> >> Something important to mention is that there is currently a discrepancy >> between GCC and Clang when dealing with switch fall-through to empty case >> statements or to cases that only contain a break/continue/return >> statement[2][3][4]. > > Are we sure we want to make this change? Was it discussed before? > > Are there any bugs Clangs puritanical definition of fallthrough helped > find? > > IMVHO compiler warnings are supposed to warn about issues that could > be bugs. Falling through to default: break; can hardly be a bug?! The justification for this is explained in this same changelog text: Now that the -Wimplicit-fallthrough option has been globally enabled[5], any compiler should really warn on missing either a fallthrough annotation or any of the other case-terminating statements (break/continue/return/ goto) when falling through to the next case statement. Making exceptions to this introduces variation in case handling which may continue to lead to bugs, misunderstandings, and a general lack of robustness. The point of enabling options like -Wimplicit-fallthrough is to prevent human error and aid developers in spotting bugs before their code is even built/ submitted/committed, therefore eliminating classes of bugs. So, in order to really accomplish this, we should, and can, move in the direction of addressing any error-prone scenarios and get rid of the unintentional fallthrough bug-class in the kernel, entirely, even if there is some minor redundancy. Better to have explicit case-ending statements than continue to have exceptions where one must guess as to the right result. The compiler will eliminate any actual redundancy. Note that there is already a patch in mainline that addresses almost 40,000 of these issues[6]. [1] commit e2079e93f562c ("kbuild: Do not enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang for now") [2] ClangBuiltLinux#636 [3] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91432 [4] https://godbolt.org/z/xgkvIh [5] commit a035d552a93b ("Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning") [6] commit 4169e889e588 ("include: jhash/signal: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang") Thanks -- Gustavo