Re: [PATCH] devres: Correclty strip percpu address space of devm_free_percpu() argument

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Aug 30 2024 - 05:55:44 EST


On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 10:33:52AM +0200, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> devm_free_percpu() calls devres_release() with a pointer in percpu
> address space. devres_release() expects pointers in the generic address
> space, so address space needs to be stripped from the argument.
>
> When strict percpu address space checks are enabled, then the current
> direct cast from the percpu address space to the generic address space
> fails the compilation on x86_64 with:
>
> devres.c:1234:32: error: cast to generic address space pointer from disjoint ‘__seg_gs’ address space pointer
>
> Add intermediate casts to unsigned long to remove address space of
> the pointer before casting it to the generic AS, as advised in [1]
> and [2].
>
> Side note: sparse still requires __force, although the documentation
> [2] allows casts to unsigned long without __force attribute.
>
> Found by GCC's named address space checks.
>
> There were no changes in the resulting object file.
>
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Named-Address-Spaces.html#x86-Named-Address-Spaces
> [2] https://sparse.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/annotations.html#address-space-name
>
> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/devres.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
> index a2ce0ead06a6..2152eec0c135 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/devres.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
> @@ -1231,6 +1231,6 @@ void devm_free_percpu(struct device *dev, void __percpu *pdata)
> * devm_free_pages() does.
> */
> WARN_ON(devres_release(dev, devm_percpu_release, devm_percpu_match,
> - (__force void *)pdata));
> + (void *)(__force unsigned long)pdata));
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_free_percpu);
> --
> 2.46.0
>

What commit id does this fix?

thanks,

greg k-h