Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: selftests: Compile code with warnings enabled

From: Thomas Huth
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 06:09:35 EST


On 17/05/2019 11.41, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:04:45AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> So far the KVM selftests are compiled without any compiler warnings
>>> enabled. That's quite bad, since we miss a lot of possible bugs this
>>> way. Let's enable at least "-Wall" and some other useful warning flags
>>> now, and fix at least the trivial problems in the code (like unused
>>> variables).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> v2:
>>> - Rebased to kvm/queue
>>> - Fix warnings in state_test.c and evmcs_test.c, too
>>
>> I still see these warnings (probably because the hyperv_cpuid.c is a
>> new test):
>>
>> In file included from x86_64/hyperv_cpuid.c:18:
>> x86_64/hyperv_cpuid.c: In function âtest_hv_cpuidâ:
>> x86_64/hyperv_cpuid.c:61:33: warning: suggest parentheses around comparison in operand of â==â [-Wparentheses]
>> TEST_ASSERT(entry->padding[0] == entry->padding[1]
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> include/test_util.h:32:15: note: in definition of macro âTEST_ASSERTâ
>> test_assert((e), #e, __FILE__, __LINE__, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
>> ^
>> x86_64/hyperv_cpuid.c:62:8: warning: suggest parentheses around comparison in operand of â==â [-Wparentheses]
>> TEST_ASSERT(entry->padding[0] == entry->padding[1]
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> == entry->padding[2] == 0,
>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> include/test_util.h:32:15: note: in definition of macro âTEST_ASSERTâ
>> test_assert((e), #e, __FILE__, __LINE__, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
>
> There's a fix from Dan Carpenter on the list:
> https://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=155783012012532&w=2

Right, that fix should preferably be committed first.

>> x86_64/hyperv_cpuid.c: In function âkvm_get_supported_hv_cpuidâ:
>> x86_64/hyperv_cpuid.c:93:6: warning: unused variable âretâ [-Wunused-variable]
>> int ret;
>> ^~~

... but I obviously missed this one here again :-/

There are also these compiler warnings left:

lib/ucall.c: In function âget_ucallâ:
lib/ucall.c:145:3: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break
strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
gva = *(vm_vaddr_t *)run->mmio.data;

x86_64/vmx_set_nested_state_test.c: In function
âset_revision_id_for_vmcs12â:
x86_64/vmx_set_nested_state_test.c:78:2: warning: dereferencing
type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
*(u32 *)(state->data) = vmcs12_revision;

... how do we want to handle such spots in the kvm selftest code?
Compile with -fno-strict-aliasing? Or fix it with type-punning through
unions?

Thomas