Re: [RFC] saturate check_*_overflow() output?

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 12:23:03PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > What we might do, to deal with the "caller fails to check the result",
> > is to add a
> > 
> > static inline bool __must_check must_check_overflow(bool b) { return
> > unlikely(b); }
> > 
> > and wrap all the final "did it overflow" results in that one - perhaps
> > also for the __builtin_* cases, I don't know if those are automatically
> > equipped with that attribute. [I also don't know if gcc propagates
> > likely/unlikely out to the caller, but it shouldn't hurt to have it
> > there and might improve code gen if it does.]
> 
> (What is the formal name for the ({ ...; return_value; }) C construct?)

'Statement Exprs'.

A compound statement enclosed in parentheses may appear as an expression
in GNU C.  This allows you to use loops, switches, and local variables
within an expression.