[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Aurelien Jarno]

Recent versions of GCC report the following error when compiling
target-mips/helper.c:

  qemu/target-mips/helper.c:542:9: warning: ‘memset’ used with length
  equal to number of elements without multiplication by element size
  [-Wmemset-elt-size]

This is indeed correct and due to a wrong usage of sizeof(). Fix that.

Cc: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>
LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1577841
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
---
 target-mips/helper.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/target-mips/helper.c b/target-mips/helper.c
index 1004ede..cfea177 100644
--- a/target-mips/helper.c
+++ b/target-mips/helper.c
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ void mips_cpu_do_interrupt(CPUState *cs)
         break;
     case EXCP_SRESET:
         env->CP0_Status |= (1 << CP0St_SR);
-        memset(env->CP0_WatchLo, 0, sizeof(*env->CP0_WatchLo));
+        memset(env->CP0_WatchLo, 0, sizeof(env->CP0_WatchLo));
         goto set_error_EPC;
     case EXCP_NMI:
         env->CP0_Status |= (1 << CP0St_NMI);
-- 
2.8.1

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Stefan Weil]

Am 09.05.2016 um 18:44 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> Recent versions of GCC report the following error when compiling
> target-mips/helper.c:
> 
>   qemu/target-mips/helper.c:542:9: warning: ‘memset’ used with length
>   equal to number of elements without multiplication by element size
>   [-Wmemset-elt-size]
> 
> This is indeed correct and due to a wrong usage of sizeof(). Fix that.
> 
> Cc: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
> Cc: Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>
> LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1577841
> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
> ---
>  target-mips/helper.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target-mips/helper.c b/target-mips/helper.c
> index 1004ede..cfea177 100644
> --- a/target-mips/helper.c
> +++ b/target-mips/helper.c
> @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ void mips_cpu_do_interrupt(CPUState *cs)
>          break;
>      case EXCP_SRESET:
>          env->CP0_Status |= (1 << CP0St_SR);
> -        memset(env->CP0_WatchLo, 0, sizeof(*env->CP0_WatchLo));
> +        memset(env->CP0_WatchLo, 0, sizeof(env->CP0_WatchLo));
>          goto set_error_EPC;
>      case EXCP_NMI:
>          env->CP0_Status |= (1 << CP0St_NMI);
> 

Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>

I suggest to apply this patch to 2.6, if this is still possible:

* It is a very small modification which fixes a bug.
* It fixes a new build error with recent gcc versions.

The first reason alone would not justify it for 2.6 as this
is a rather old bug.

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 May 2016 at 18:53, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
> I suggest to apply this patch to 2.6, if this is still possible

It is not; sorry.

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 May 2016 at 18:55, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 9 May 2016 at 18:53, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
>> I suggest to apply this patch to 2.6, if this is still possible
>
> It is not; sorry.

Note that it's only an error if you're building with -Werror, and
releases don't default to -Werror, so users using released QEMU 2.6
shouldn't hit this even with the newer gcc. Developers developing
on trunk shouldn't be unduly inconvenienced if the commit fixing it
is post-2.6-release rather than the actual release.

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 05/09/2016 07:57 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 May 2016 at 18:55, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 9 May 2016 at 18:53, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
>>> I suggest to apply this patch to 2.6, if this is still possible
>>
>> It is not; sorry.

I think we have delayed 2.6 already far too long (so please release)
but


> Note that it's only an error if you're building with -Werror, and
> releases don't default to -Werror, so users using released QEMU 2.6
> shouldn't hit this even with the newer gcc. Developers developing
> on trunk shouldn't be unduly inconvenienced if the commit fixing it
> is post-2.6-release rather than the actual release.

to me it looks like that this is not a compile time error, instead we
really do not memset a variable that we are supposed to memset.
the only reason to not consider it for 2.6 is that its is really old
and it did not seem to cause harm.

Christian

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 May 2016 at 20:28, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 05/09/2016 07:57 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 9 May 2016 at 18:55, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> On 9 May 2016 at 18:53, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
>>>> I suggest to apply this patch to 2.6, if this is still possible
>>>
>>> It is not; sorry.
>
> I think we have delayed 2.6 already far too long (so please release)
> but

Already done :-)

>> Note that it's only an error if you're building with -Werror, and
>> releases don't default to -Werror, so users using released QEMU 2.6
>> shouldn't hit this even with the newer gcc. Developers developing
>> on trunk shouldn't be unduly inconvenienced if the commit fixing it
>> is post-2.6-release rather than the actual release.
>
> to me it looks like that this is not a compile time error, instead we
> really do not memset a variable that we are supposed to memset.
> the only reason to not consider it for 2.6 is that its is really old
> and it did not seem to cause harm.

Yes, it is both a code bug and a compile error, but the former
has been present for many releases so is not a regression, and
the latter is only an error if you're building with -Werror.
So in my view it's the kind of bug we'd certainly fix at about
rc3 or so, but not a bug which is "release critical showstopper".

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 05/12/2016 12:41 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 11 May 2016 at 20:28, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On 05/09/2016 07:57 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 9 May 2016 at 18:55, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>> On 9 May 2016 at 18:53, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
>>>>> I suggest to apply this patch to 2.6, if this is still possible
>>>>
>>>> It is not; sorry.
>>
>> I think we have delayed 2.6 already far too long (so please release)
>> but
> 
> Already done :-)
> 
>>> Note that it's only an error if you're building with -Werror, and
>>> releases don't default to -Werror, so users using released QEMU 2.6
>>> shouldn't hit this even with the newer gcc. Developers developing
>>> on trunk shouldn't be unduly inconvenienced if the commit fixing it
>>> is post-2.6-release rather than the actual release.
>>
>> to me it looks like that this is not a compile time error, instead we
>> really do not memset a variable that we are supposed to memset.
>> the only reason to not consider it for 2.6 is that its is really old
>> and it did not seem to cause harm.
> 
> Yes, it is both a code bug and a compile error, but the former
> has been present for many releases so is not a regression, and
> the latter is only an error if you're building with -Werror.
> So in my view it's the kind of bug we'd certainly fix at about
> rc3 or so, but not a bug which is "release critical showstopper".

Maybe a topic for this years QEMU summit could be to talk about
release process and release criterias.

We could 
a: allow more patches , e.g. I thing that this patch would be have 
been taken in the Linux kernel a day before the release, see for 
example what is applied 4 days before a release as network fixes:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4d8bbbff1227bbb27fdb02b6db17f080c06eedad
22 files changed, 258 insertions, 86 deletions

b: as we are strict and only apply hand selected patches, regressions are
very unlikely, so we could release sooner. For example the CVE fixes could 
have just been taken and rc5 being released as final. (which we did anyway
but 3 days later)

c: we consider everything fine and keep the process

d: better ideas

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Peter Maydell]

On 12 May 2016 at 08:40, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> Maybe a topic for this years QEMU summit could be to talk about
> release process and release criterias.

Yeah, I'm happy to talk about what we could do better with
releases (both on the mailing list and at the summit). A
couple of notes:

This time around we had to delay by at least a week because of
the timing of the CVEs -- we had to allow a reasonable time
before raising the embargo for distros to prepare fixes, and
the bugs came in pretty close to when we'd otherwise have done
our final rc for the release.

I think one significant difference between us and Linux is that
we have fewer people testing our rcs, so I worry that if we put
more stuff in then we are less likely to notice bugs in it
in time.

The intended purpose of the "few days gap then final release
is same as last rc" approach is to give a safety valve in
case the patches that went into the final rc had some
horrendous bug in them. In this case the last rc only had the
CVE fixes so was pretty safe, but in previous releases we've
often had a few more patches than that in final-rc. I don't
think two extra days before reopening the tree is a very
big cost.

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 12 May 2016 09:40:21 +0200
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Maybe a topic for this years QEMU summit could be to talk about
> release process and release criterias.

+1 to that.

> We could 
> a: allow more patches , e.g. I thing that this patch would be have 
> been taken in the Linux kernel a day before the release, see for 
> example what is applied 4 days before a release as network fixes:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4d8bbbff1227bbb27fdb02b6db17f080c06eedad
> 22 files changed, 258 insertions, 86 deletions

Personally, I would probably go for something between applying this
patch and that networking pull :)

> b: as we are strict and only apply hand selected patches, regressions are
> very unlikely, so we could release sooner. For example the CVE fixes could 
> have just been taken and rc5 being released as final. (which we did anyway
> but 3 days later)
> 
> c: we consider everything fine and keep the process
> 
> d: better ideas

One thing I've noticed is that softfreeze/early hardfreeze qemus often
seem more unstable than versions earlier in the development cycle -
probably because people panic and rush to get code in for the release.
I don't know if stricter rules/enforcement of what is supposed to go in
during softfreeze/hardfreeze would help here.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 05/12/2016 10:06 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2016 09:40:21 +0200
> Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe a topic for this years QEMU summit could be to talk about
>> release process and release criterias.
> 
> +1 to that.
> 
>> We could 
>> a: allow more patches , e.g. I thing that this patch would be have 
>> been taken in the Linux kernel a day before the release, see for 
>> example what is applied 4 days before a release as network fixes:
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4d8bbbff1227bbb27fdb02b6db17f080c06eedad
>> 22 files changed, 258 insertions, 86 deletions
> 
> Personally, I would probably go for something between applying this
> patch and that networking pull :)
> 
>> b: as we are strict and only apply hand selected patches, regressions are
>> very unlikely, so we could release sooner. For example the CVE fixes could 
>> have just been taken and rc5 being released as final. (which we did anyway
>> but 3 days later)
>>
>> c: we consider everything fine and keep the process
>>
>> d: better ideas
> 
> One thing I've noticed is that softfreeze/early hardfreeze qemus often
> seem more unstable than versions earlier in the development cycle -
> probably because people panic and rush to get code in for the release.
> I don't know if stricter rules/enforcement of what is supposed to go in
> during softfreeze/hardfreeze would help here.

Yes, there are some problems here. But I fully agree with Peter.
We really do need more infrastructure and people to
- maintain stable release much more often and for more than one release
  (that would allow to be less strict before a release)
- have something like qemu-next
- have something like kbuild test robot (aka 0-Day)
- have releases more often (to reduce the pressure to rush in)

Christian

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-mips: fix call to memset in soft reset code

[Leon Alrae]

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 06:44:00PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Recent versions of GCC report the following error when compiling
> target-mips/helper.c:
> 
>   qemu/target-mips/helper.c:542:9: warning: ‘memset’ used with length
>   equal to number of elements without multiplication by element size
>   [-Wmemset-elt-size]
> 
> This is indeed correct and due to a wrong usage of sizeof(). Fix that.
> 
> Cc: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
> Cc: Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>
> LP: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1577841
> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
> ---
>  target-mips/helper.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to target-mips queue and added Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org.

Thanks,
Leon