Re: mmotm 2020-06-25-20-36 uploaded (objtool warning)

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 6/30/20 2:59 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:35:08PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> arch/x86/kernel/sys_ia32.o: warning: objtool: cp_stat64()+0x57: call to new_encode_dev() with UACCESS enabled
> 
> That's c120f3b81ede ("x86: switch cp_stat64() to unsafe_put_user()").
> 
> Where __put_user() made sure evaluate 'x' before doing
> __uaccess_begin(), the new code has no such choice.
> 
> The simplest fix is probably something like this.
> 

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> # build-tested

Thanks.

> ---
>  include/linux/kdev_t.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kdev_t.h b/include/linux/kdev_t.h
> index 85b5151911cf..a840ffef7c19 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kdev_t.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kdev_t.h
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static inline dev_t old_decode_dev(u16 val)
>  	return MKDEV((val >> 8) & 255, val & 255);
>  }
>  
> -static inline u32 new_encode_dev(dev_t dev)
> +static __always_inline u32 new_encode_dev(dev_t dev)
>  {
>  	unsigned major = MAJOR(dev);
>  	unsigned minor = MINOR(dev);
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static inline dev_t new_decode_dev(u32 dev)
>  	return MKDEV(major, minor);
>  }
>  
> -static inline u64 huge_encode_dev(dev_t dev)
> +static __always_inline u64 huge_encode_dev(dev_t dev)
>  {
>  	return new_encode_dev(dev);
>  }
> 


-- 
~Randy