[failures] build_bugh-more-user-friendly-error-messages-in-build_bug_on_zero.patch removed from -mm tree

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: build_bug.h: more user friendly error messages in BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     build_bugh-more-user-friendly-error-messages-in-build_bug_on_zero.patch

This patch was dropped because it had testing failures

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From: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: build_bug.h: more user friendly error messages in BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO()
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 00:11:46 +0900

__BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG(), as introduced in [1], makes it possible to do a
static assert while still returning a zero value.  The direct benefit is
to provide a meaningful error message instead of the cryptic negative
bitfield size error message currently returned by BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO():

  ./include/linux/build_bug.h:16:51: error: negative width in bit-field '<anonymous>'
     16 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
        |                                                   ^

Get rid of BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO() bitfield size hack.  Instead rely on
__BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG() (which in turn relies on C11's
_Static_assert()).

Use some macro magic, similarly to static_assert(), to either use an error
message provided by the user or, when omitted, to produce a default error
message by stringifying the tested expression.  With this, for example:

  BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG(1 > 0)

would now throw:

  ./include/linux/compiler.h:245:62: error: static assertion failed: "1 > 0 is true"
    245 | #define __BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG(e, msg) ((int)sizeof(struct {_Static_assert(!(e), msg);}))
        |                                                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Finally, __BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG() is already guarded by an:

  #ifdef __CHECKER__

So no need any more for that guard clause for BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO().
Remove it.

[1] commit d7a516c6eeae ("compiler.h: Fix undefined BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO()")

Link: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/d7a516c6eeae
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241205151316.1480255-2-mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 include/linux/build_bug.h |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/build_bug.h~build_bugh-more-user-friendly-error-messages-in-build_bug_on_zero
+++ a/include/linux/build_bug.h
@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@
 
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 
-#ifdef __CHECKER__
-#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (0)
-#else /* __CHECKER__ */
 /*
  * Force a compilation error if condition is true, but also produce a
  * result (of value 0 and type int), so the expression can be used
  * e.g. in a structure initializer (or where-ever else comma expressions
  * aren't permitted).
+ *
+ * Take a message as an optional second argument. If omitted, default to
+ * the stringification of the tested expression.
  */
-#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
-#endif /* __CHECKER__ */
+#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e, ...) __BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e, ##__VA_ARGS__, #e)
+#define __BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e, msg) __BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG(e, msg " is true")
 
 /* Force a compilation error if a constant expression is not a power of 2 */
 #define __BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(n)	\
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx are






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