Re: [PATCH 1/4] locking/atomic/x86: Silence intentional wrapping addition

[Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 03:45:07PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 12:41:41AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:17:34PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > 
> > > @@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_atomic_add_negative(int i, atomic_t *v)
> > >  
> > >  static __always_inline int arch_atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
> > >  {
> > > -	return i + xadd(&v->counter, i);
> > > +	return wrapping_add(int, i, xadd(&v->counter, i));
> > >  }
> > >  #define arch_atomic_add_return arch_atomic_add_return
> > 
> > this is going to get old *real* quick :-/
> > 
> > This must be the ugliest possible way to annotate all this, and then
> > litter the kernel with all this... urgh.
> 
> I'm expecting to have explicit wrapping type annotations soon[1], but for
> the atomics, it's kind of a wash on how intrusive the annotations get. I
> had originally wanted to mark the function (as I did in other cases)
> rather than using the helper, but Mark preferred it this way. I'm happy
> to do whatever! :)

To be clear, I dislike the function annotation because then it applies to
*everything* within the function, which is overly broad and the intent becomes
unclear. That makes it painful to refactor the code (since e.g. if we want to
add another operation to the function which *should not* wrap, that gets
silenced too).

I'm happy with something that applies to specific types/variables or specific
operations (which is what these patches do).

As to whether or not we do this at all I'll have to defer to Peter.

Mark.