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While tracking down a problem where constant expressions used by BUILD_BUG_ON() suddenly stopped working[1], we found that an added static initializer was convincing the compiler that it couldn't track the state of the prior statically initialized value. Tracing this down found that ffs() was used in the initializer macro, but since it wasn't marked with __attribute_const__, the compiler had to assume the function might change variable states as a side-effect (which is not true for ffs(), which provides deterministic math results). Validate all the __attibute_const__ annotations were found for all architectures by reproducing the specific problem encountered in the original bug report. Build and run tested with everything I could reach with KUnit: $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=x86_64 ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=i386 ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=arm64 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-" ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=arm --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-" ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpc ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpc32 ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpcle ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=m68k ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=loongarch ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=s390 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu-" ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=riscv --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-" ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=riscv32 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-" ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sparc --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-gnu-" ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sparc64 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-gnu-" ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=alpha --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=alpha-linux-gnu-" ffs $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sh --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sh4-linux-gnu-" ffs Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/364 Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804164417.1612371-17-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.