From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Make nvme_pci_npages_prp() __always_inline
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 22:55:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202505062255.130383D3B7@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250507044754.GC28402@lst.de>
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 06:47:54AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 08:35:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The only reason nvme_pci_npages_prp() could be used as a compile-time
> > known result in BUILD_BUG_ON() is because the compiler was always choosing
> > to inline the function. Under special circumstances (sanitizer coverage
> > functions disabled for __init functions on ARCH=um), the compiler decided
> > to stop inlining it:
>
> Can we place just fix um to still force inlining inline functions instead
> of needing these workarounds?
Oh, I don't have the history here. Is there something about UM and
forcing off inlining?
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-07 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-07 3:35 [PATCH] nvme-pci: Make nvme_pci_npages_prp() __always_inline Kees Cook
2025-05-07 4:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-07 5:55 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2025-05-07 6:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-05-07 15:53 ` Kees Cook
2025-05-07 16:00 ` Keith Busch
2025-05-09 4:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
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