Re: [PATCH] compiler_types: mark __compiletime_assert failure as __noreturn

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 03:23:31PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> `__compiletime_assert` declares a fake `extern` function
> which appears (to the compiler) to be called when the test fails.
> 
> Therefore, compilers may emit possibly-uninitialized warnings
> in some cases, even if it will be an error anyway (for compilers
> supporting the `error` attribute, e.g. GCC and Clang >= 14)
> or a link failure (for those that do not, e.g. Clang < 14).
> 
> Annotating the fake function as `__noreturn` gives them
> the information they need to avoid the warning,
> e.g. see https://godbolt.org/z/x1v69jjYY.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/202110100514.3h9CI4s0-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/compiler_types.h | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
> index b6ff83a714ca..ca1a66b8cd2f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
> @@ -298,7 +298,13 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
>  #ifdef __OPTIMIZE__
>  # define __compiletime_assert(condition, msg, prefix, suffix)		\
>  	do {								\
> -		extern void prefix ## suffix(void) __compiletime_error(msg); \
> +		/*							\
> +		 * __noreturn is needed to give the compiler enough	\
> +		 * information to avoid certain possibly-uninitialized	\
> +		 * warnings (regardless of the build failing).		\
> +		 */							\
> +		__noreturn extern void prefix ## suffix(void)		\
> +			__compiletime_error(msg);			\
>  		if (!(condition))					\
>  			prefix ## suffix();				\
>  	} while (0)

Should we not convert this to _Static_assert, now that all supported
compilers are of recent enough vintage to support that?