Re: nfs compile error nfslocalio.o and localio.o since v6.14-rc1

Jeff Johnson
2025-03-25T18:25:42Z

On 3/18/25 12:05, Pali Rohár wrote:
> PING?
>
> On Sunday 23 February 2025 19:27:46 Pali Rohár wrote:
>> Mike, have you looked at this issue?
>>
>> On Saturday 15 February 2025 17:51:00 Pali Rohár wrote:
>>> On Saturday 15 February 2025 11:41:25 Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>> On 2/15/25 11:38 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday 15 February 2025 11:29:45 Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Pali -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/15/25 7:00 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello, since v6.14-rc1, file nfslocalio.c cannot be compiled with
>>>>>>> gcc-8.3 and attached .config file. Same problem is with localio.c.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If the interwebs are correct, gcc-8.3 was released in 2014. ISTR that
>>>>>> recent releases of the Linux kernel no longer support gcc versions that
>>>>>> old.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello, I know that this is old version, and I specially used it just to
>>>>> check if everything compiles correctly. And it failed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Per https://docs.kernel.org/process/changes.html the minimal version of
>>>>> gcc is 5.1, so I think that compilation with gcc 8.3 should still be
>>>>> supported.
>>>>>
>>>>>> It appears to be snagging on kernel-wide utility helpers, not code
>>>>>> specific to NFS.
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like that, but only those two nfs files cause compile errors.
>>>>> Everything else compiles without problem. So it is quite suspicious and
>>>>> maybe it could signal that those helper are used incorrectly in nfs
>>>>> code? I'm not sure, I have not investigated it.
>>>>
>>>> A bisect would be helpful.
>>>>
>>>> Also, what is the CPU platform architecture? x86_64?
>>>
>>> Yes, it is x86_64, I hope that all details/configuration is in the
>>> .config file. I took generic gcc 8.3 version which was distributed by
>>> some debian version. So nothing special.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> If that's the case, it might not be possible for us to address this
>>>>>> breakage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Adding Mike, who contributed this code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Error is:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ make bzImage
>>>>>>> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>>>>>>> DESCEND objtool
>>>>>>> INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
>>>>>>> CC fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.o
>>>>>>> In file included from ./include/linux/rbtree.h:24,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/mm_types.h:11,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:22,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/gfp.h:7,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/umh.h:4,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/kmod.h:9,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/module.h:17,
>>>>>>> from fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.c:7:
>>>>>>> fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.c: In function ‘nfs_close_local_fh’:
>>>>>>> ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:531:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct nfsd_file’
>>>>>>> typeof(*p) *local = (typeof(*p) *__force)READ_ONCE(p); \
>>>>>>> ^
>>>>>>> ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:650:31: note: in expansion of macro ‘__rcu_access_pointer’
>>>>>>> #define rcu_access_pointer(p) __rcu_access_pointer((p), __UNIQUE_ID(rcu), __rcu)
>>>>>>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>> fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.c:288:10: note: in expansion of macro ‘rcu_access_pointer’
>>>>>>> ro_nf = rcu_access_pointer(nfl->ro_file);
>>>>>>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>> make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:207: fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.o] Error 1
>>>>>>> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:465: fs/nfs_common] Error 2
>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:465: fs] Error 2
>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [/home/pali/develop/kernel.org/linux/Makefile:1994: .] Error 2
>>>>>>> make: *** [Makefile:251: __sub-make] Error 2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ make fs/nfs/localio.o
>>>>>>> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>>>>>>> DESCEND objtool
>>>>>>> INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
>>>>>>> CC fs/nfs/localio.o
>>>>>>> In file included from ./include/linux/rbtree.h:24,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/mm_types.h:11,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:22,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/gfp.h:7,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/umh.h:4,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/kmod.h:9,
>>>>>>> from ./include/linux/module.h:17,
>>>>>>> from fs/nfs/localio.c:11:
>>>>>>> fs/nfs/localio.c: In function ‘nfs_local_open_fh’:
>>>>>>> ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:538:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct nfsd_file’
>>>>>>> typeof(*p) *local = (typeof(*p) *__force)READ_ONCE(p); \
>>>>>>> ^
>>>>>>> ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:686:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘__rcu_dereference_check’
>>>>>>> __rcu_dereference_check((p), __UNIQUE_ID(rcu), \
>>>>>>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>> ./include/linux/rcupdate.h:758:28: note: in expansion of macro ‘rcu_dereference_check’
>>>>>>> #define rcu_dereference(p) rcu_dereference_check(p, 0)
>>>>>>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>> fs/nfs/localio.c:275:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘rcu_dereference’
>>>>>>> nf = rcu_dereference(*pnf);
>>>>>>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>>>> make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:207: fs/nfs/localio.o] Error 1
>>>>>>> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:465: fs/nfs] Error 2
>>>>>>> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:465: fs] Error 2
>>>>>>> make[1]: *** [/home/pali/develop/kernel.org/linux/Makefile:1994: .] Error 2
>>>>>>> make: *** [Makefile:251: __sub-make] Error 2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reproduced from commit 7ff71e6d9239 ("Merge tag 'alpha-fixes-v6.14-rc2'
>>>>>>> of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha").

FWIW I'm seeing this issue using gcc-13.3.0-nolibc/x86_64-linux/bin/x86_64-linux-gcc
from https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool so this isn't just a GCC version
issue. My workspace is based on 6.14-rc5

In file included from ./include/linux/rbtree.h:24,
from ./include/linux/mm_types.h:11,
from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:22,
from ./include/linux/gfp.h:7,
from ./include/linux/umh.h:4,
from ./include/linux/kmod.h:9,
from ./include/linux/module.h:17,
from fs/nfs/localio.c:11:
fs/nfs/localio.c: In function ‘nfs_local_open_fh’:
./include/linux/rcupdate.h:538:9: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct nfsd_file’
538 | typeof(*p) *local = (typeof(*p) *__force)READ_ONCE(p); \
| ^
./include/linux/rcupdate.h:686:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘__rcu_dereference_check’
686 | __rcu_dereference_check((p), __UNIQUE_ID(rcu), \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/rcupdate.h:758:28: note: in expansion of macro ‘rcu_dereference_check’
758 | #define rcu_dereference(p) rcu_dereference_check(p, 0)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
fs/nfs/localio.c:275:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘rcu_dereference’
275 | nf = rcu_dereference(*pnf);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[7]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:207: fs/nfs/localio.o] Error 1

There is also a Intel kernel test robot report: