ARM: 8429/1: disable GCC SRA optimization
authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Thu, 3 Sep 2015 12:24:40 +0000 (13:24 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Mon, 7 Sep 2015 12:24:05 +0000 (13:24 +0100)
commita077224fd35b2f7fbc93f14cf67074fc792fbac2
treed54776f130253f4b0e8f2afdb4233a8c453ace63
parent3939f3345050b1ace675675c47d99fd7b606d9e3
ARM: 8429/1: disable GCC SRA optimization

While working on the 32-bit ARM port of UEFI, I noticed a strange
corruption in the kernel log. The following snprintf() statement
(in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c:efi_md_typeattr_format())

snprintf(pos, size, "|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%3s|%2s|%2s|%2s|%2s]",

was producing the following output in the log:

|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
|RUN|   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
|    |   |   |   |    |WB|WT|WC|UC]
|RUN|   |   |   |    |   |   |   |UC]
|RUN|   |   |   |    |   |   |   |UC]

As it turns out, this is caused by incorrect code being emitted for
the string() function in lib/vsprintf.c. The following code

if (!(spec.flags & LEFT)) {
while (len < spec.field_width--) {
if (buf < end)
*buf = ' ';
++buf;
}
}
for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
if (buf < end)
*buf = *s;
++buf; ++s;
}
while (len < spec.field_width--) {
if (buf < end)
*buf = ' ';
++buf;
}

when called with len == 0, triggers an issue in the GCC SRA optimization
pass (Scalar Replacement of Aggregates), which handles promotion of signed
struct members incorrectly. This is a known but as yet unresolved issue.
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65932). In this particular
case, it is causing the second while loop to be executed erroneously a
single time, causing the additional space characters to be printed.

So disable the optimization by passing -fno-ipa-sra.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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