On Fri, Sep 5, 2025, at 10:16, Anders Roxell wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sept 2025 at 07:28, Kees Cook <k...@kernel.org> wrote:
>> @@ -5949,7 +5950,10 @@ int pcie_set_readrq(struct pci_dev *dev, int rq)
>> rq = mps;
>> }
>>
>> - v = FIELD_PREP(PCI_EXP_DEVCTL_READRQ, ffs(rq) - 8);
>> + firstbit = ffs(rq);
>> + if (firstbit < 8)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> + v = FIELD_PREP(PCI_EXP_DEVCTL_READRQ, firstbit - 8);
>
> Hi Kees,
>
> Thank you for looking into this.
>
> These warnings are not a one time thing. the later versions of gcc
> can figure it
> out that firstbit is at least 8 based on the "rq < 128" (i guess), so
> we're adding
> bogus code. maybe we should just disable the check for gcc-8.
Out of the three failures I saw, two also happened with gcc-9, but
gcc-10 looks clean so far.
> \
> + (0 + (_val)) : 0,
> \
> _pfx "value too large for the field"); \
> BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(__bf_cast_unsigned(_mask, _mask) > \
> __bf_cast_unsigned(_reg, ~0ull), \
>
> I found similar patterns with ffs and FIELD_PREP here
> drivers/dma/uniphier-xdmac.c row 156 and 165
> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_cursor_regs.h row 17
I did not come across build failures for these.
Arnd
