Re: [PATCH 01/10] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 04:40:38PM -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
> 
> 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.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kees Cook