On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:16:49PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:45 AM Nathan Chancellor > <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 11:34:29AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > > On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 11:30 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > > > > Hi SCSI folks, > > > > > > > > In an effort to get the kernel building warning free with Clang, we've > > > > come across an interesting occurrence in a few scsi drivers: > > > > > > > > drivers/scsi/hpsa.c:6533:7: warning: overflow converting case value to switch condition type (2148024833 to 18446744071562609153) [-Wswitch] > > > > case CCISS_GETPCIINFO: > > > > ^ > > > > ./include/uapi/linux/cciss_ioctl.h:65:26: note: expanded from macro 'CCISS_GETPCIINFO' > > > > #define CCISS_GETPCIINFO _IOR(CCISS_IOC_MAGIC, 1, cciss_pci_info_struct) > > > > ^ > > > > ./include/uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h:86:28: note: expanded from macro '_IOR' > > > > #define _IOR(type,nr,size) _IOC(_IOC_READ,(type),(nr),(_IOC_TYPECHECK(size))) > > > > ^ > > > > ./include/uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h:70:2: note: expanded from macro '_IOC' > > > > (((dir) << _IOC_DIRSHIFT) | \ > > > > ^ > > > > > > > > I see this warning in drivers/scsi/hpsa.c and drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c > > > > on an arm64 allyesconfig build and it has also been reported in a couple of files in > > > > drivers/scsi/cxlflash. > > > > > > > > As the warning states, there is an overflow because the switch statement's value is of > > > > type int but the switch value is greater than INT_MAX. I did a brief sweep of the tree > > > > and it seems that all uses of _IOC in switch statement values either are small enough > > > > to fit into size int or the value is of size unsigned int. > > > > > > > > I am unsure of the implications of using a smaller _IOC value or converting all ioctls > > > > to expect a cmd of type unsigned int (especially since that has userspace implications) > > > > but I didn't see any negative ioctl commands. Some clarity and insight would be > > > > appreciated. > > > > > > Have you verified how gcc compiles these switch statements? Maybe gcc supports > > > switch / case statements on integral types that are larger than an int? > > GCC just doesn't warn when the case expression is greater than the > maximal representable value and thus would wrap (or appears to, this > is probably undefined behavior). Using an unsigned int here is no > functional change: > https://godbolt.org/z/1IyYV4 > > GCC and Clang do effectively the same thing as each other, and in the > cases of switching on an unsigned int vs signed int. > Regardless of how the overflow is handled within the switch statement, the overflow is also happening when passing in these values to the ioctl, right? I mean these case values are defined in the uapi files so that userspace can easily pass them in to the ioctl, meaning those values are being passed in as a signed integer and I would assume subsequently overflowing unless I'm just missing something here. Nathan > > > > > > Bart. > > > > Hi Bart, > > > > That is entirely possible, I will do some research. I did build with GCC > > to see if there was any warning and there isn't so I'll be curious to > > see what is happening at a lower level. > > > > Thanks for the comment! > > Nathan > > > > -- > Thanks, > ~Nick Desaulniers
