Re: [PATCH v3] sched/core: Address classes via __begin_sched_classes

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 08:00:23PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> GCC 12 is very sensitive about array checking, and views all negative
> array accesses as unsafe (a not unreasonable position). Redefine
> sched_class_highest in terms of its location from __begin_sched_classes,
> and redefine sched_class_lowest to the actual lowest sched class instead
> of one lower. This also means the for_class_range() must be redefined to
> be inclusive, which means its 1 caller must be adjusted to have its
> "lowest" argument bumped up one position. Silences this warning:
> 
> In file included from kernel/sched/core.c:81:
> kernel/sched/core.c: In function ‘set_rq_online.part.0’:
> kernel/sched/sched.h:2197:52: error: array subscript -1 is outside array bounds of ‘struct sched_class[44343134792571037]’
>  [-Werror=array-bounds]
>  2197 | #define sched_class_lowest  (__begin_sched_classes - 1)
>       |                                                    ^
> kernel/sched/sched.h:2200:41: note: in definition of macro ‘for_class_range’
>  2200 |         for (class = (_from); class != (_to); class--)
>       |                                         ^~~
> kernel/sched/sched.h:2203:53: note: in expansion of macro ‘sched_class_lowest’
>  2203 |for_class_range(class, sched_class_highest, sched_class_lowest)
>       |                                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> kernel/sched/core.c:9115:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘for_each_class’
>  9115 |                 for_each_class(class) {
>       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> kernel/sched/sched.h:2193:27: note: at offset -208 into object ‘__begin_sched_classes’ of size [0, 9223372036854775807]
>  2193 | extern struct sched_class __begin_sched_classes[];
>       |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> The introduce and use of sched_class_higher() could just be a bare "+ 1",
> but this code's backwards walking and non-inclusive for loop was weird
> enough, it seemed back to explicitly describe the manipulation
> happening.

I just need to start today over. This should read:

 The introduction and use of sched_class_higher() could just be a bare
 "+ 1", but this code's backwards-walking and non-inclusive for loop was
 weird enough, it seemed best to explicitly describe the manipulation
 happening.

-- 
Kees Cook