On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 5:04 PM Sven Eckelmann [off-list ref] wrote:

On Monday, 26 July 2021 14:57:31 CEST Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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The special attribute force must be used in such statements when the cast
is known to be safe to avoid these warnings.

I can see why this would warn, but I'm having trouble reproducing the
warning on linux-next.

I have sparse 0.6.3 on an Debian bullseye amd64 system. Sources are from
linux-next next-20210723

    make allnoconfig
    cat >> .config << "EOF"
    CONFIG_NET=y
    CONFIG_INET=y
    CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV=y
    CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DAT=y
    EOF
    make olddefconfig
    make CHECK="sparse -Wbitwise-pointer" C=1

I should maybe have made this clearer in the last sentence of the first
paragraph: "This is also true for pointers to variables with this type when
-Wbitwise-pointer is activated."

Ok, got it. I assumed this would be turned on by an 'allmodconfig' build.

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If both work equally well, I'd prefer Sven's patch since that only
expands 'type' once, while container_of() expands it three more times

Not sure what I was thinking here, as it's not 'type' that gets expanded
here but 'ptr'. We could do Al's suggestion to avoid the __force without
multiple expansions, using

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h b/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h
index 1c4242416c9f..d138dc5fd8e3 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h

@@ -10,17 +10,25 @@
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>

 #define __get_unaligned_t(type, ptr) ({
                 \
-       const struct { type x; } __packed *__pptr =

(typeof(__pptr))(ptr);      \
+       const struct { type x; } __packed *__pptr =
         \
+                               container_of(ptr, typeof(*__pptr), x);
         \
        __pptr->x;
         \
 })

 #define __put_unaligned_t(type, val, ptr) do {
         \
-       struct { type x; } __packed *__pptr = (typeof(__pptr))(ptr);
         \
+       struct { type x; } __packed *__pptr =
         \
+                               container_of(ptr, typeof(*__pptr), x);
         \
        __pptr->x = (val);
         \
 } while (0)

-#define get_unaligned(ptr)     __get_unaligned_t(typeof(*(ptr)), (ptr))
-#define put_unaligned(val, ptr) __put_unaligned_t(typeof(*(ptr)), (val), (ptr))
+#define get_unaligned(ptr)     ({
         \
+       __auto_type _ptr = (ptr);
         \
+       __get_unaligned_t(typeof(*(_ptr)), (_ptr));
         \
+})
+#define put_unaligned(val, ptr)        ({
                 \
+       __auto_type _ptr = (ptr);
         \
+       __put_unaligned_t(typeof(*(_ptr)), (val), (_ptr));
         \
+})

 static inline u16 get_unaligned_le16(const void *p)
 {

Not sure if this is any better.

        Arnd