Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: avoid holes in struct spi_mem_op

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 19:00:25 UTC, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> gcc gets confused when -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern is used on sparse
> bit fields such as 'struct spi_mem_op', which caused the previous false
> positive warning about an uninitialized variable:
> 
> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spansion.c: error: 'op' is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]
> 
> In fact, the variable is fully initialized and gcc does not see it being
> used, so the warning is entirely bogus. The problem appears to be
> a misoptimization in the initialization of single bit fields when the
> rest of the bytes are not initialized.
> 
> A previous workaround added another initialization, which ended up
> shutting up the warning in spansion.c, though it apparently still happens
> in other files as reported by Peter Foley in the gcc bugzilla. The
> workaround of adding a fake initialization seems particularly bad
> because it would set values that can never be correct but prevent the
> compiler from warning about actually missing initializations.
> 
> Revert the broken workaround and instead pad the structure to only
> have bitfields that add up to full bytes, which should avoid this
> behavior in all drivers.
> 
> I also filed a new bug against gcc with what I found, so this can
> hopefully be addressed in future gcc releases. At the moment, only
> gcc-12 and gcc-13 are affected.
> 
> Cc: Peter Foley <pefoley2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110743
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108402
> Link: https://godbolt.org/z/efMMsG1Kx
> Fixes: 420c4495b5e56 ("mtd: spi-nor: spansion: make sure local struct does not contain garbage")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/fixes, thanks.

Miquel