Re: [PATCH v2] srcu: avoid escaped section names

[Kees Cook]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:25:49PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> The stringification operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings.
> For example, `# "foo"` becomes `"\"foo\""`.  GCC and Clang differ in how
> they treat section names that contain \".
> 
> The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
> preprocessor stringification operator.
> 
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
> Fixes: commit fe15b50cdeee ("srcu: Allocate per-CPU data for DEFINE_SRCU() in modules")
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ah, ignore my earlier question about also fixing this instance. Here it
is! ;)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
> Changes V1->V2:
> * drop unrelated Kconfig changes accidentally committed in v1.
> 
>  include/linux/srcutree.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/srcutree.h b/include/linux/srcutree.h
> index 9cfcc8a756ae..9de652f4e1bd 100644
> --- a/include/linux/srcutree.h
> +++ b/include/linux/srcutree.h
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ struct srcu_struct {
>  # define __DEFINE_SRCU(name, is_static)					\
>  	is_static struct srcu_struct name;				\
>  	struct srcu_struct * const __srcu_struct_##name			\
> -		__section("___srcu_struct_ptrs") = &name
> +		__section(___srcu_struct_ptrs) = &name
>  #else
>  # define __DEFINE_SRCU(name, is_static)					\
>  	static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct srcu_data, name##_srcu_data);	\
> -- 
> 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
> 

-- 
Kees Cook