Re: [PATCH v3] kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed struct attributes

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Rasmus Villemoes
<rasmus.villemoes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2018-02-22 19:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Lookie here (in a fully built tree):
>>
>>     find . -name '*.o.cmd' |
>>         xargs grep -L linux/compiler_types.h |
>>         xargs grep -l linux/kconfig.h |
>>         while read i; do
>>             j=$(echo $i | sed 's/\.o.cmd$/\.c/' | sed 's:/\.:/:');
>>             test -f $j && echo $j;
>>         done
>>
>> shows that a number of files don't end up depending on that header
>> file, even though it's included (that "grep -l linux/kconfig,h"
>> triggers on the command itself having that "-include linux/kconfig.h"
>> line).
>>
>> It looks like "gcc -M" just doesn't list any files that get included
>> on the command line with "-include".
>
> It does, both per the documentation and testing it. But fixdep
> explicitly removes include/linux/kconfig.h along with
> include/generated/autoconf.h and a few others. So when you rebuilt after
> adding the #include to kconfig.h, I think nothing actually got built,
> and no new .o.cmd files got generated.
>
> Doing a clean build does make include/linux/compiler_{types,gcc}.h and
> the various fake include/config/.... they "depend" on appear in e.g.
> lib/.clz_tab.o.cmd.

I'm seeing the same. If I do:

$ find . -name '*.o.cmd' | xargs rm
$ make allmodconfig
$ make -j...
...
$ find-command-above...

I get no hits. And doing spot-testing shows dep changes are detected:

$ ls -l fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kees kees 276088 Feb 22 13:15 fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o
$ make fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o
...generated-files-only...
$ ls -l fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kees kees 276088 Feb 22 13:15 fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o
$ touch include/linux/compiler_types.h
$ make fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o
...various...
  CC [M]  fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o
$ ls -l fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kees kees 276088 Feb 22 13:21 fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.o

Am I missing something?

> The whole point of fixdep and the include/config hierarchy is to be able
> to remove the dependency on autoconf.h, but I'm not sure I understand
> why kconfig.h itself is also forcibly removed.

Is there a mode where we're now rebuilding too much?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security