powerpc/64: Drop ppc_inst_as_str()
The ppc_inst_as_str() macro tries to make printing variable length, aka "prefixed", instructions convenient. It mostly succeeds, but it does hide an on-stack buffer, which triggers stack protector. More problematically it doesn't compile at all with GCC 12, with -Wdangling-pointer, due to the fact that it returns the char buffer declared inside the macro: arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function '__ftrace_modify_call': ./include/linux/printk.h:475:44: error: using a dangling pointer to '__str' [-Werror=dangling-pointer=] 475 | #define printk(fmt, ...) printk_index_wrap(_printk, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) ... arch/powerpc/kernel/trace/ftrace.c:567:17: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_err' 567 | pr_err("Not expected bl: opcode is %s\n", ppc_inst_as_str(op)); | ^~~~~~ ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/inst.h:156:14: note: '__str' declared here 156 | char __str[PPC_INST_STR_LEN]; \ | ^~~~~ This could be fixed by having the caller declare the buffer, but in some places there'd need to be two buffers. In all cases where ppc_inst_as_str() is used the output is not really meant for user consumption, it's almost always indicative of a kernel bug. A simpler solution is to just print the value as an unsigned long. For normal instructions the output is identical. For prefixed instructions the value is printed as a single 64-bit quantity, whereas previously the low half was printed first. But that is good enough for debug output, especially as prefixed instructions will be rare in kernel code in practice. Old: c000000000111170 60420000 ori r2,r2,0 c000000000111174 04100001 e580fb00 .long 0xe580fb0004100001 New: c00000000010f90c 60420000 ori r2,r2,0 c00000000010f910 e580fb0004100001 .long 0xe580fb0004100001 Reported-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220531065936.3674348-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment