Re: [PATCH 00/10] raise minimum GCC version to 5.1

[Michael Ellerman]

Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 04:40:37PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>> commit fad7cd3310db ("nbd: add the check to prevent overflow in
>> __nbd_ioctl()")
>> 
>> raised an issue from the fallback helpers added in
>> 
>> commit f0907827a8a9 ("compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and add fallback code")
>> 
>> Specifically, the helpers for checking whether the results of a
>> multiplication overflowed (__unsigned_mul_overflow,
>> __signed_add_overflow) use the division operator when
>> !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW. This is problematic for 64b
>> operands on 32b hosts.
>> 
>> Also, because the macro is type agnostic, it is very difficult to write
>> a similarly type generic macro that dispatches to one of:
>> * div64_s64
>> * div64_u64
>> * div_s64
>> * div_u64
>
> Given that it's all compile-time type-aware goo, this isn't so bad. The
> gist[1] you linked off the bug report is pretty close. Needs some
> bikeshedding. ;)
>
>> Raising the minimum supported versions allows us to remove all of the
>> fallback helpers for !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW, instead
>> dispatching the compiler builtins.
>> 
>> arm64 has already raised the minimum supported GCC version to 5.1, do
>> this for all targets now. See the link below for the previous
>> discussion.
>
> That said, I'd much prefer raising the minimum GCC -- no one appears
> to actually be building on 4.9 -- there are close to 200 errors (neé
> warnings) on x86_64 allmodconfig there currently.

I still do 4.9 builds on kisskb, but I agree there are a lot of
warnings, and no one ever has time to fix any.

cheers