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[82.69.66.36]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-439b0367507sm82737345e9.28.2025.02.23.08.42.03 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:42:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:42:02 +0000 From: David Laight To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steven Rostedt , Martin Uecker , Dan Carpenter , Greg KH , Boqun Feng , "H. Peter Anvin" , Miguel Ojeda , Christoph Hellwig , rust-for-linux , David Airlie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: Rust kernel policy Message-ID: <20250223164202.550f14b8@pumpkin> In-Reply-To: References: <326CC09B-8565-4443-ACC5-045092260677@zytor.com> <2025021954-flaccid-pucker-f7d9@gregkh> <4e316b01634642cf4fbb087ec8809d93c4b7822c.camel@tugraz.at> <2025022024-blooper-rippling-2667@gregkh> <1d43700546b82cf035e24d192e1f301c930432a3.camel@tugraz.at> <2025022042-jot-favored-e755@gregkh> <61a7e7db786d9549cbe201b153647689cbe12d75.camel@tugraz.at> <20250221124304.5dec31b2@gandalf.local.home> <6b3e4d3bdc9b6efd69068e5b22cfd05d370aed19.camel@tugraz.at> <20250221172415.5b632ae6@gandalf.local.home> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:04:04 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 at 14:23, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > If I could just get a warning for this stupid mistake: > > > > size_t ret; > > > > ret = func(); > > if (ret < 0) > > error(); > > Note that my main beef with the crazy compiler warning is that it > literally triggers for *RANGE CHECKS*. > > IOW, it's literally the "if (a < 0 || a > XYZ)" thing that absolutely > MUST NOT WARN. EVER. If it does, the compiler is broken. The other one is where it already knows the code is being discarded. I suspect it even warns for: unsigned int x; if (1 || x < 0) ... You can't even escape with Generic (a switch statement based on the type of a variable). All the options have to compile with all the types. David