Re: [PATCH] genksyms: Ignore module scoped _Static_assert()

[Marco Elver]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 21:00, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 7:21 AM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The C11 _Static_assert() keyword may be used at module scope, and we
> > need to teach genksyms about it to not abort with an error. We currently
> > have a growing number of static_assert() (but also direct usage of
> > _Static_assert()) users at module scope:
> >
> >         git grep -E '^_Static_assert\(|^static_assert\(' | grep -v '^tools' | wc -l
> >         135
> >
> > More recently, when enabling CONFIG_MODVERSIONS with CONFIG_KCSAN, we
> > observe a number of warnings:
> >
> >         WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "<..all kcsan symbols..>" [vmlinux] [...]
> >
> > When running a preprocessed source through 'genksyms -w' a number of
> > syntax errors point at usage of static_assert()s. In the case of
> > kernel/kcsan/encoding.h, new static_assert()s had been introduced which
> > used expressions that appear to cause genksyms to not even be able to
> > recover from the syntax error gracefully (as it appears was the case
> > previously).
> >
> > Therefore, make genksyms ignore all _Static_assert() and the contained
> > expression. With the fix, usage of _Static_assert() no longer cause
> > "syntax error" all over the kernel, and the above modpost warnings for
> > KCSAN are gone, too.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ah, genksyms...if only there were a library that we could use to parse
> C code...:P
> Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Which tree would this go into?

It'd be good if this problem could be fixed for 5.11.

Thanks,
-- Marco