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<title>Linux 5.7-rc5</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T22:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2020-05-10T22:16:58+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T18:59:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-10T18:59:53+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes for x86:

   - Ensure that direct mapping alias is always flushed when changing
     page attributes. The optimization for small ranges failed to do so
     when the virtual address was in the vmalloc or module space.

   - Unbreak the trace event registration for syscalls without arguments
     caused by the refactoring of the SYSCALL_DEFINE0() macro.

   - Move the printk in the TSC deadline timer code to a place where it
     is guaranteed to only be called once during boot and cannot be
     rearmed by clearing warn_once after boot. If it's invoked post boot
     then lockdep rightfully complains about a potential deadlock as the
     calling context is different.

   - A series of fixes for objtool and the ORC unwinder addressing
     variety of small issues:

       - Stack offset tracking for indirect CFAs in objtool ignored
         subsequent pushs and pops

       - Repair the unwind hints in the register clearing entry ASM code

       - Make the unwinding in the low level exit to usermode code stop
         after switching to the trampoline stack. The unwind hint is no
         longer valid and the ORC unwinder emits a warning as it can't
         find the registers anymore.

       - Fix unwind hints in switch_to_asm() and rewind_stack_do_exit()
         which caused objtool to generate bogus ORC data.

       - Prevent unwinder warnings when dumping the stack of a
         non-current task as there is no way to be sure about the
         validity because the dumped stack can be a moving target.

       - Make the ORC unwinder behave the same way as the frame pointer
         unwinder when dumping an inactive tasks stack and do not skip
         the first frame.

       - Prevent ORC unwinding before ORC data has been initialized

       - Immediately terminate unwinding when a unknown ORC entry type
         is found.

       - Prevent premature stop of the unwinder caused by IRET frames.

       - Fix another infinite loop in objtool caused by a negative
         offset which was not catched.

       - Address a few build warnings in the ORC unwinder and add
         missing static/ro_after_init annotations"

* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/unwind/orc: Move ORC sorting variables under !CONFIG_MODULES
  x86/apic: Move TSC deadline timer debug printk
  ftrace/x86: Fix trace event registration for syscalls without arguments
  x86/mm/cpa: Flush direct map alias during cpa
  objtool: Fix infinite loop in for_offset_range()
  x86/unwind/orc: Fix premature unwind stoppage due to IRET frames
  x86/unwind/orc: Fix error path for bad ORC entry type
  x86/unwind/orc: Prevent unwinding before ORC initialization
  x86/unwind/orc: Don't skip the first frame for inactive tasks
  x86/unwind: Prevent false warnings for non-current tasks
  x86/unwind/orc: Convert global variables to static
  x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in rewind_stack_do_exit()
  x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in __switch_to_asm()
  x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in kernel exit path
  x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in register clearing code
  objtool: Fix stack offset tracking for indirect CFAs
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes for x86:

   - Ensure that direct mapping alias is always flushed when changing
     page attributes. The optimization for small ranges failed to do so
     when the virtual address was in the vmalloc or module space.

   - Unbreak the trace event registration for syscalls without arguments
     caused by the refactoring of the SYSCALL_DEFINE0() macro.

   - Move the printk in the TSC deadline timer code to a place where it
     is guaranteed to only be called once during boot and cannot be
     rearmed by clearing warn_once after boot. If it's invoked post boot
     then lockdep rightfully complains about a potential deadlock as the
     calling context is different.

   - A series of fixes for objtool and the ORC unwinder addressing
     variety of small issues:

       - Stack offset tracking for indirect CFAs in objtool ignored
         subsequent pushs and pops

       - Repair the unwind hints in the register clearing entry ASM code

       - Make the unwinding in the low level exit to usermode code stop
         after switching to the trampoline stack. The unwind hint is no
         longer valid and the ORC unwinder emits a warning as it can't
         find the registers anymore.

       - Fix unwind hints in switch_to_asm() and rewind_stack_do_exit()
         which caused objtool to generate bogus ORC data.

       - Prevent unwinder warnings when dumping the stack of a
         non-current task as there is no way to be sure about the
         validity because the dumped stack can be a moving target.

       - Make the ORC unwinder behave the same way as the frame pointer
         unwinder when dumping an inactive tasks stack and do not skip
         the first frame.

       - Prevent ORC unwinding before ORC data has been initialized

       - Immediately terminate unwinding when a unknown ORC entry type
         is found.

       - Prevent premature stop of the unwinder caused by IRET frames.

       - Fix another infinite loop in objtool caused by a negative
         offset which was not catched.

       - Address a few build warnings in the ORC unwinder and add
         missing static/ro_after_init annotations"

* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/unwind/orc: Move ORC sorting variables under !CONFIG_MODULES
  x86/apic: Move TSC deadline timer debug printk
  ftrace/x86: Fix trace event registration for syscalls without arguments
  x86/mm/cpa: Flush direct map alias during cpa
  objtool: Fix infinite loop in for_offset_range()
  x86/unwind/orc: Fix premature unwind stoppage due to IRET frames
  x86/unwind/orc: Fix error path for bad ORC entry type
  x86/unwind/orc: Prevent unwinding before ORC initialization
  x86/unwind/orc: Don't skip the first frame for inactive tasks
  x86/unwind: Prevent false warnings for non-current tasks
  x86/unwind/orc: Convert global variables to static
  x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in rewind_stack_do_exit()
  x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in __switch_to_asm()
  x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in kernel exit path
  x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in register clearing code
  objtool: Fix stack offset tracking for indirect CFAs
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<title>Merge tag 'objtool-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T18:42:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-10T18:42:14+00:00</published>
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Pull objtool fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix for objtool to prevent an infinite loop in the
  jump table search which can be triggered when building the
  kernel with '-ffunction-sections'"

* tag 'objtool-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  objtool: Fix infinite loop in find_jump_table()
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Pull objtool fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix for objtool to prevent an infinite loop in the
  jump table search which can be triggered when building the
  kernel with '-ffunction-sections'"

* tag 'objtool-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  objtool: Fix infinite loop in find_jump_table()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T18:39:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-10T18:39:31+00:00</published>
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Pull locking fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix for the fallout of the recent futex uacess rework.

  With those changes GCC9 fails to analyze arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
  correctly and emits a 'maybe unitialized' warning. While we usually
  ignore compiler stupidity the conditional store is pointless anyway
  because the correct case has to store. For the fault case the extra
  store does no harm"

* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ARM: futex: Address build warning
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Pull locking fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix for the fallout of the recent futex uacess rework.

  With those changes GCC9 fails to analyze arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
  correctly and emits a 'maybe unitialized' warning. While we usually
  ignore compiler stupidity the conditional store is pointless anyway
  because the correct case has to store. For the fault case the extra
  store does no harm"

* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ARM: futex: Address build warning
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'iommu-fixes-v5.7-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T18:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-10T18:26:23+00:00</published>
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Pull iommu fixes from Joerg Roedel:

 - Race condition fixes for the AMD IOMMU driver.

   These are five patches fixing two race conditions around
   increase_address_space(). The first race condition was around the
   non-atomic update of the domain page-table root pointer and the
   variable containing the page-table depth (called mode). This is fixed
   now be merging page-table root and mode into one 64-bit field which
   is read/written atomically.

   The second race condition was around updating the page-table root
   pointer and making it public before the hardware caches were flushed.
   This could cause addresses to be mapped and returned to drivers which
   are not reachable by IOMMU hardware yet, causing IO page-faults. This
   is fixed too by adding the necessary flushes before a new page-table
   root is published.

   Related to the race condition fixes these patches also add a missing
   domain_flush_complete() barrier to update_domain() and a fix to bail
   out of the loop which tries to increase the address space when the
   call to increase_address_space() fails.

   Qian was able to trigger the race conditions under high load and
   memory pressure within a few days of testing. He confirmed that he
   has seen no issues anymore with the fixes included here.

 - Fix for a list-handling bug in the VirtIO IOMMU driver.

* tag 'iommu-fixes-v5.7-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu:
  iommu/virtio: Reverse arguments to list_add
  iommu/amd: Do not flush Device Table in iommu_map_page()
  iommu/amd: Update Device Table in increase_address_space()
  iommu/amd: Call domain_flush_complete() in update_domain()
  iommu/amd: Do not loop forever when trying to increase address space
  iommu/amd: Fix race in increase_address_space()/fetch_pte()
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Pull iommu fixes from Joerg Roedel:

 - Race condition fixes for the AMD IOMMU driver.

   These are five patches fixing two race conditions around
   increase_address_space(). The first race condition was around the
   non-atomic update of the domain page-table root pointer and the
   variable containing the page-table depth (called mode). This is fixed
   now be merging page-table root and mode into one 64-bit field which
   is read/written atomically.

   The second race condition was around updating the page-table root
   pointer and making it public before the hardware caches were flushed.
   This could cause addresses to be mapped and returned to drivers which
   are not reachable by IOMMU hardware yet, causing IO page-faults. This
   is fixed too by adding the necessary flushes before a new page-table
   root is published.

   Related to the race condition fixes these patches also add a missing
   domain_flush_complete() barrier to update_domain() and a fix to bail
   out of the loop which tries to increase the address space when the
   call to increase_address_space() fails.

   Qian was able to trigger the race conditions under high load and
   memory pressure within a few days of testing. He confirmed that he
   has seen no issues anymore with the fixes included here.

 - Fix for a list-handling bug in the VirtIO IOMMU driver.

* tag 'iommu-fixes-v5.7-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu:
  iommu/virtio: Reverse arguments to list_add
  iommu/amd: Do not flush Device Table in iommu_map_page()
  iommu/amd: Update Device Table in increase_address_space()
  iommu/amd: Call domain_flush_complete() in update_domain()
  iommu/amd: Do not loop forever when trying to increase address space
  iommu/amd: Fix race in increase_address_space()/fetch_pte()
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<title>Merge tag 'block-5.7-2020-05-09' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T18:16:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-10T18:16:07+00:00</published>
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - a small series fixing a use-after-free of bdi name (Christoph,Yufen)

 - NVMe fix for a regression with the smaller CQ update (Alexey)

 - NVMe fix for a hang at namespace scanning error recovery (Sagi)

 - fix race with blk-iocost iocg-&gt;abs_vdebt updates (Tejun)

* tag 'block-5.7-2020-05-09' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvme: fix possible hang when ns scanning fails during error recovery
  nvme-pci: fix "slimmer CQ head update"
  bdi: add a -&gt;dev_name field to struct backing_dev_info
  bdi: use bdi_dev_name() to get device name
  bdi: move bdi_dev_name out of line
  vboxsf: don't use the source name in the bdi name
  iocost: protect iocg-&gt;abs_vdebt with iocg-&gt;waitq.lock
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - a small series fixing a use-after-free of bdi name (Christoph,Yufen)

 - NVMe fix for a regression with the smaller CQ update (Alexey)

 - NVMe fix for a hang at namespace scanning error recovery (Sagi)

 - fix race with blk-iocost iocg-&gt;abs_vdebt updates (Tejun)

* tag 'block-5.7-2020-05-09' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvme: fix possible hang when ns scanning fails during error recovery
  nvme-pci: fix "slimmer CQ head update"
  bdi: add a -&gt;dev_name field to struct backing_dev_info
  bdi: use bdi_dev_name() to get device name
  bdi: move bdi_dev_name out of line
  vboxsf: don't use the source name in the bdi name
  iocost: protect iocg-&gt;abs_vdebt with iocg-&gt;waitq.lock
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<title>gcc-10: mark more functions __init to avoid section mismatch warnings</title>
<updated>2020-05-10T00:50:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-10T00:50:03+00:00</published>
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It seems that for whatever reason, gcc-10 ends up not inlining a couple
of functions that used to be inlined before.  Even if they only have one
single callsite - it looks like gcc may have decided that the code was
unlikely, and not worth inlining.

The code generation difference is harmless, but caused a few new section
mismatch errors, since the (now no longer inlined) function wasn't in
the __init section, but called other init functions:

   Section mismatch in reference from the function kexec_free_initrd() to the function .init.text:free_initrd_mem()
   Section mismatch in reference from the function tpm2_calc_event_log_size() to the function .init.text:early_memremap()
   Section mismatch in reference from the function tpm2_calc_event_log_size() to the function .init.text:early_memunmap()

So add the appropriate __init annotation to make modpost not complain.
In both cases there were trivially just a single callsite from another
__init function.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It seems that for whatever reason, gcc-10 ends up not inlining a couple
of functions that used to be inlined before.  Even if they only have one
single callsite - it looks like gcc may have decided that the code was
unlikely, and not worth inlining.

The code generation difference is harmless, but caused a few new section
mismatch errors, since the (now no longer inlined) function wasn't in
the __init section, but called other init functions:

   Section mismatch in reference from the function kexec_free_initrd() to the function .init.text:free_initrd_mem()
   Section mismatch in reference from the function tpm2_calc_event_log_size() to the function .init.text:early_memremap()
   Section mismatch in reference from the function tpm2_calc_event_log_size() to the function .init.text:early_memunmap()

So add the appropriate __init annotation to make modpost not complain.
In both cases there were trivially just a single callsite from another
__init function.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.7-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2020-05-09T23:24:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-09T23:24:16+00:00</published>
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Pull RISC-V fixes from Palmer Dabbelt:
 "A smattering of fixes and cleanups:

   - Dead code removal.

   - Exporting riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask for modules.

   - Per-CPU tracking of ISA features.

   - Setting max_pfn correctly when probing memory.

   - Adding a note to the VDSO so glibc can check the kernel's version
     without a uname().

   - A fix to force the bootloader to initialize the boot spin tables,
     which still get used as a fallback when SBI-0.1 is enabled"

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.7-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
  RISC-V: Remove unused code from STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
  riscv: force __cpu_up_ variables to put in data section
  riscv: add Linux note to vdso
  riscv: set max_pfn to the PFN of the last page
  RISC-V: Remove N-extension related defines
  RISC-V: Add bitmap reprensenting ISA features common across CPUs
  RISC-V: Export riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask() API
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Pull RISC-V fixes from Palmer Dabbelt:
 "A smattering of fixes and cleanups:

   - Dead code removal.

   - Exporting riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask for modules.

   - Per-CPU tracking of ISA features.

   - Setting max_pfn correctly when probing memory.

   - Adding a note to the VDSO so glibc can check the kernel's version
     without a uname().

   - A fix to force the bootloader to initialize the boot spin tables,
     which still get used as a fallback when SBI-0.1 is enabled"

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.7-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
  RISC-V: Remove unused code from STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
  riscv: force __cpu_up_ variables to put in data section
  riscv: add Linux note to vdso
  riscv: set max_pfn to the PFN of the last page
  RISC-V: Remove N-extension related defines
  RISC-V: Add bitmap reprensenting ISA features common across CPUs
  RISC-V: Export riscv_cpuid_to_hartid_mask() API
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<entry>
<title>gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto</title>
<updated>2020-05-09T22:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-09T22:58:04+00:00</published>
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gcc-10 has started warning about conflicting types for a few new
built-in functions, particularly 'free()'.

This results in warnings like:

   crypto/xts.c:325:13: warning: conflicting types for built-in function ‘free’; expected ‘void(void *)’ [-Wbuiltin-declaration-mismatch]

because the crypto layer had its local freeing functions called
'free()'.

Gcc-10 is in the wrong here, since that function is marked 'static', and
thus there is no chance of confusion with any standard library function
namespace.

But the simplest thing to do is to just use a different name here, and
avoid this gcc mis-feature.

[ Side note: gcc knowing about 'free()' is in itself not the
  mis-feature: the semantics of 'free()' are special enough that a
  compiler can validly do special things when seeing it.

  So the mis-feature here is that gcc thinks that 'free()' is some
  restricted name, and you can't shadow it as a local static function.

  Making the special 'free()' semantics be a function attribute rather
  than tied to the name would be the much better model ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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gcc-10 has started warning about conflicting types for a few new
built-in functions, particularly 'free()'.

This results in warnings like:

   crypto/xts.c:325:13: warning: conflicting types for built-in function ‘free’; expected ‘void(void *)’ [-Wbuiltin-declaration-mismatch]

because the crypto layer had its local freeing functions called
'free()'.

Gcc-10 is in the wrong here, since that function is marked 'static', and
thus there is no chance of confusion with any standard library function
namespace.

But the simplest thing to do is to just use a different name here, and
avoid this gcc mis-feature.

[ Side note: gcc knowing about 'free()' is in itself not the
  mis-feature: the semantics of 'free()' are special enough that a
  compiler can validly do special things when seeing it.

  So the mis-feature here is that gcc thinks that 'free()' is some
  restricted name, and you can't shadow it as a local static function.

  Making the special 'free()' semantics be a function attribute rather
  than tied to the name would be the much better model ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>gcc-10: disable 'restrict' warning for now</title>
<updated>2020-05-09T22:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-09T22:45:21+00:00</published>
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gcc-10 now warns about passing aliasing pointers to functions that take
restricted pointers.

That's actually a great warning, and if we ever start using 'restrict'
in the kernel, it might be quite useful.  But right now we don't, and it
turns out that the only thing this warns about is an idiom where we have
declared a few functions to be "printf-like" (which seems to make gcc
pick up the restricted pointer thing), and then we print to the same
buffer that we also use as an input.

And people do that as an odd concatenation pattern, with code like this:

    #define sysfs_show_gen_prop(buffer, fmt, ...) \
        snprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "%s"fmt, buffer, __VA_ARGS__)

where we have 'buffer' as both the destination of the final result, and
as the initial argument.

Yes, it's a bit questionable.  And outside of the kernel, people do have
standard declarations like

    int snprintf( char *restrict buffer, size_t bufsz,
                  const char *restrict format, ... );

where that output buffer is marked as a restrict pointer that cannot
alias with any other arguments.

But in the context of the kernel, that 'use snprintf() to concatenate to
the end result' does work, and the pattern shows up in multiple places.
And we have not marked our own version of snprintf() as taking restrict
pointers, so the warning is incorrect for now, and gcc picks it up on
its own.

If we do start using 'restrict' in the kernel (and it might be a good
idea if people find places where it matters), we'll need to figure out
how to avoid this issue for snprintf and friends.  But in the meantime,
this warning is not useful.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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gcc-10 now warns about passing aliasing pointers to functions that take
restricted pointers.

That's actually a great warning, and if we ever start using 'restrict'
in the kernel, it might be quite useful.  But right now we don't, and it
turns out that the only thing this warns about is an idiom where we have
declared a few functions to be "printf-like" (which seems to make gcc
pick up the restricted pointer thing), and then we print to the same
buffer that we also use as an input.

And people do that as an odd concatenation pattern, with code like this:

    #define sysfs_show_gen_prop(buffer, fmt, ...) \
        snprintf(buffer, PAGE_SIZE, "%s"fmt, buffer, __VA_ARGS__)

where we have 'buffer' as both the destination of the final result, and
as the initial argument.

Yes, it's a bit questionable.  And outside of the kernel, people do have
standard declarations like

    int snprintf( char *restrict buffer, size_t bufsz,
                  const char *restrict format, ... );

where that output buffer is marked as a restrict pointer that cannot
alias with any other arguments.

But in the context of the kernel, that 'use snprintf() to concatenate to
the end result' does work, and the pattern shows up in multiple places.
And we have not marked our own version of snprintf() as taking restrict
pointers, so the warning is incorrect for now, and gcc picks it up on
its own.

If we do start using 'restrict' in the kernel (and it might be a good
idea if people find places where it matters), we'll need to figure out
how to avoid this issue for snprintf and friends.  But in the meantime,
this warning is not useful.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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