Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] linux/bits.h: fix unsigned less than zero warnings

[Herbert Xu]

Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When calling the GENMASK and GENMASK_ULL macros with zero lower bit and
> an unsigned unknown high bit, some gcc versions warn due to the
> comparisons of the high and low bit in GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK.
> 
> To silence the warnings, only perform the check if both inputs are
> known. This does not trigger any warnings, from the Wtype-limits help:
> 
>        Warn if a comparison is always true or always false due to the
>        limited range of the data type, but do not warn for constant
>        expressions.
> 
> As an example of the warning, kindly reported by the kbuild test robot:
> 
> from drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c:11:
> drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c: In function 'atmel_smc_cs_encode_ncycles':
> include/linux/bits.h:26:28: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits]
> 26 |   __builtin_constant_p((l) > (h)), (l) > (h), 0)))
> |                            ^
> include/linux/build_bug.h:16:62: note: in definition of macro 'BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO'
> 16 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
> |                                                              ^
> include/linux/bits.h:39:3: note: in expansion of macro 'GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK'
> 39 |  (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) + __GENMASK(h, l))
> |   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c:49:25: note: in expansion of macro 'GENMASK'
> 49 |  unsigned int lsbmask = GENMASK(msbpos - 1, 0);
> |                         ^~~~~~~
> 
> Fixes: 295bcca84916 ("linux/bits.h: add compile time sanity check of GENMASK inputs")
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3-v4
> Added Emils Reviewed-by.

I'm still getting the same warning even with the patch, for example:

  CC [M]  drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.o
  CHECK   ../drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel_hash.c
In file included from ../include/linux/bits.h:23,
                 from ../include/linux/bitops.h:5,
                 from ../include/linux/kernel.h:12,
                 from ../include/linux/clk.h:13,
                 from ../drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c:8:
../drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c: In function \u2018safexcel_hw_init\u2019:
../include/linux/bits.h:27:7: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits]
   (l) > (h), 0)))
       ^
../include/linux/build_bug.h:16:62: note: in definition of macro \u2018BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO\u2019
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
                                                              ^
../include/linux/bits.h:40:3: note: in expansion of macro \u2018GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK\u2019
  (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) + __GENMASK(h, l))
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c:649:11: note: in expansion of macro \u2018GENMASK\u2019
           GENMASK(priv->config.rings - 1, 0),
           ^~~~~~~
../include/linux/bits.h:27:7: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits]
   (l) > (h), 0)))
       ^
../include/linux/build_bug.h:16:62: note: in definition of macro \u2018BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO\u2019
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
                                                              ^
../include/linux/bits.h:40:3: note: in expansion of macro \u2018GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK\u2019
  (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) + __GENMASK(h, l))
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c:757:35: note: in expansion of macro \u2018GENMASK\u2019
   writel(EIP197_DxE_THR_CTRL_EN | GENMASK(priv->config.rings - 1, 0),
                                   ^~~~~~~
../include/linux/bits.h:27:7: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits]
   (l) > (h), 0)))
       ^
../include/linux/build_bug.h:16:62: note: in definition of macro \u2018BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO\u2019
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
                                                              ^
../include/linux/bits.h:40:3: note: in expansion of macro \u2018GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK\u2019
  (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) + __GENMASK(h, l))
   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c:761:35: note: in expansion of macro \u2018GENMASK\u2019
   writel(EIP197_DxE_THR_CTRL_EN | GENMASK(priv->config.rings - 1, 0),
                                   ^~~~~~~

This happens when only l is const but h isn't.

Can we please just revert the original patch and work this out in
the next release?

Thanks,
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