[PATCH 2/4] Revert "lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp"

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Mon Aug 17 2020 - 18:02:40 EST


This reverts commit 5f074f3e192f10c9fade898b9b3b8812e3d83342.

Use `-fno-builtin-bcmp` instead.

The issue with using `-fno-builtin-*` flags was that they were not
retained during an LTO link with LLVM. This was fixed in clang-11 by
https://reviews.llvm.org/D71193
(0508c994f0b14144041f2cfd3ba9f9a80f03de08), which is also the minimum
supported version of clang for LTO.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile | 1 +
include/linux/string.h | 3 ---
lib/string.c | 20 --------------------
3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 211a1b6f6478..722ff5864275 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -964,6 +964,7 @@ endif
# to provide implementations of these routines, then prevent the compiler from
# emitting calls to what will be undefined symbols.
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-builtin-stpcpy
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-builtin-bcmp

# include additional Makefiles when needed
include-y := scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index b1f3894a0a3e..f3bdb74bc230 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -155,9 +155,6 @@ extern void * memscan(void *,int,__kernel_size_t);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP
extern int memcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
#endif
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_BCMP
-extern int bcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
-#endif
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCHR
extern void * memchr(const void *,int,__kernel_size_t);
#endif
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 6012c385fb31..69328b8353e1 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -922,26 +922,6 @@ __visible int memcmp(const void *cs, const void *ct, size_t count)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcmp);
#endif

-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_BCMP
-/**
- * bcmp - returns 0 if and only if the buffers have identical contents.
- * @a: pointer to first buffer.
- * @b: pointer to second buffer.
- * @len: size of buffers.
- *
- * The sign or magnitude of a non-zero return value has no particular
- * meaning, and architectures may implement their own more efficient bcmp(). So
- * while this particular implementation is a simple (tail) call to memcmp, do
- * not rely on anything but whether the return value is zero or non-zero.
- */
-#undef bcmp
-int bcmp(const void *a, const void *b, size_t len)
-{
- return memcmp(a, b, len);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(bcmp);
-#endif
-
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSCAN
/**
* memscan - Find a character in an area of memory.
--
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