[PATCH] seqlock: Allow UBSAN_ALIGNMENT to fail optimizing

From: Heiko Carstens

Date: Tue May 19 2026 - 07:11:22 EST


With gcc-15 and gcc-16 with UBSAN_ALIGNMENT enabled the compiler fails to
inline and optimize __scoped_seqlock_bug() away on s390:

s390x-16.1.0-ld: kernel/sched/build_policy.o: in function `__scoped_seqlock_next':
/.../seqlock.h:1286:(.text+0x22030): undefined reference to `__scoped_seqlock_bug'

Fix this by adding UBSAN_ALIGNMENT to the list of config options where a
not inlined empty __scoped_seqlock_bug() is allowed.

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260515092057.810542-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/seqlock.h | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index 5a40252b8334..f865491c4f2c 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -1259,14 +1259,15 @@ static __always_inline void __scoped_seqlock_cleanup(struct ss_tmp *sst)

extern void __scoped_seqlock_invalid_target(void);

-#if (defined(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC) && CONFIG_GCC_VERSION < 90000) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN)
+#if (defined(CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC) && CONFIG_GCC_VERSION < 90000) || \
+ defined(CONFIG_KASAN) || defined(CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT)
/*
* For some reason some GCC-8 architectures (nios2, alpha) have trouble
* determining that the ss_done state is impossible in __scoped_seqlock_next()
* below.
*
- * Similarly KASAN is known to confuse compilers enough to break this. But we
- * don't care about code quality for KASAN builds anyway.
+ * Similarly KASAN and UBSAN_ALIGNMENT are known to confuse compilers enough
+ * to break this. But we don't care about code quality for such builds anyway.
*/
static inline void __scoped_seqlock_bug(void) { }
#else
--
2.51.0