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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, 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: Wed, 7 May 2025 08:59:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250507065913.GA31959@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202505062255.130383D3B7@keescook>

On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 10:55:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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?

Maybe I'm misunderstandng your report, but what causes the failure
to inline?


  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-07  7:04 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
2025-05-07  6:59     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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