[PATCH 0/1] fix GCC 13 build errors on 32-bit targets

[PATCH 0/1] fix GCC 13 build errors on 32-bit targets

[Luca Vizzarro]

Hi everyone,

sending in a patch to resolve some build issues encountered with
GCC 13.2 when building against 32-bit targets. These issues were
originally reported by Luca Boccassi in one of his stable builds[1].
Although, I have noticed that this problem presents itself on
more versions (e.g. 21.11) as well, and it's not specific to armv7-a as
the build suggests.

I haven't actually noticed the problem present itself on mainline,
but it doesn't mean that it won't appear in the future. This patch
should correctly fix this problem.

This patch is meant to target mainline, and all the currently
supported stable versions.

[1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:bluca:dpdk/dpdk-22.11/Debian_Next/armv7l

Luca Vizzarro (1):
  vhost: fix GCC 13 build error

 lib/vhost/virtio_net.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.34.1

[PATCH 1/1] vhost: fix GCC 13 build error

[Luca Vizzarro]

This patch resolves a build error with GCC 13 and arm/aarch32 as
targets:

In function ‘mbuf_to_desc’,
    inlined from ‘vhost_enqueue_async_packed’ at
      ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1828:6,
    inlined from ‘virtio_dev_rx_async_packed’ at
      ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1842:6,
    inlined from ‘virtio_dev_rx_async_submit_packed’ at
      ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1900:7:
../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1159:18: error: ‘buf_vec[0].buf_addr’ may
    be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
 1159 |         buf_addr = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_addr;
      |         ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<snip>
../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1160:18: error: ‘buf_vec[0].buf_iova’ may
    be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
 1160 |         buf_iova = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_iova;
      |         ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<snip>
../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1161:35: error: ‘buf_vec[0].buf_len’ may
    be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
 1161 |         buf_len = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_len;
      |                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~

GCC complains about the possible runtime path where the while loop
which fills buf_vec (in vhost_enqueue_async_packed) is not run. As a
consequence it correctly thinks that buf_vec is not initialized while
being accessed anyways.

This scenario is actually very unlikely as the only way this can occur
is if size has overflowed to 0. Meaning that the total packet length
would be close to UINT64_MAX (or actually UINT32_MAX). At first glance,
the code suggests that this may never happen as the type of size has
been changed to 64-bit. For a 32-bit architecture such as arm
(e.g. armv7-a) and aarch32, this still happens because the operand types
(pkt->pkt_len and sizeof) are 32-bit wide, performing 32-bit arithmetic
first (where the overflow can happen) and widening to 64-bit later.

The proposed fix simply guarantees to the compiler that the scope which
fills buf_vec is accessed at least once, while not disrupting the actual
logic. This is based on the assumption that size will always be greater
than 0, as suggested by the sizeof, and the packet length will never be
as big as UINT32_MAX, and causing an overflow.

Fixes: 873e8dad6f49 ("vhost: support packed ring in async datapath")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Luca Vizzarro <luca.vizzarro@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Szczepanek <paul.szczepanek@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Connolly <nick.connolly@arm.com>
---
 lib/vhost/virtio_net.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
index 1359c5fb1f..6a2ca295f5 100644
--- a/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
+++ b/lib/vhost/virtio_net.c
@@ -1935,7 +1935,7 @@ vhost_enqueue_async_packed(struct virtio_net *dev,
 	else
 		max_tries = 1;
 
-	while (size > 0) {
+	do {
 		/*
 		 * if we tried all available ring items, and still
 		 * can't get enough buf, it means something abnormal
@@ -1962,7 +1962,7 @@ vhost_enqueue_async_packed(struct virtio_net *dev,
 		avail_idx += desc_count;
 		if (avail_idx >= vq->size)
 			avail_idx -= vq->size;
-	}
+	} while (size > 0);
 
 	if (unlikely(mbuf_to_desc(dev, vq, pkt, buf_vec, nr_vec, *nr_buffers, true) < 0))
 		return -1;
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH 1/1] vhost: fix GCC 13 build error

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 4/10/24 17:21, Luca Vizzarro wrote:
> This patch resolves a build error with GCC 13 and arm/aarch32 as
> targets:
> 
> In function ‘mbuf_to_desc’,
>      inlined from ‘vhost_enqueue_async_packed’ at
>        ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1828:6,
>      inlined from ‘virtio_dev_rx_async_packed’ at
>        ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1842:6,
>      inlined from ‘virtio_dev_rx_async_submit_packed’ at
>        ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1900:7:
> ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1159:18: error: ‘buf_vec[0].buf_addr’ may
>      be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>   1159 |         buf_addr = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_addr;
>        |         ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> <snip>
> ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1160:18: error: ‘buf_vec[0].buf_iova’ may
>      be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>   1160 |         buf_iova = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_iova;
>        |         ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> <snip>
> ../lib/vhost/virtio_net.c:1161:35: error: ‘buf_vec[0].buf_len’ may
>      be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>   1161 |         buf_len = buf_vec[vec_idx].buf_len;
>        |                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~
> 
> GCC complains about the possible runtime path where the while loop
> which fills buf_vec (in vhost_enqueue_async_packed) is not run. As a
> consequence it correctly thinks that buf_vec is not initialized while
> being accessed anyways.
> 
> This scenario is actually very unlikely as the only way this can occur
> is if size has overflowed to 0. Meaning that the total packet length
> would be close to UINT64_MAX (or actually UINT32_MAX). At first glance,
> the code suggests that this may never happen as the type of size has
> been changed to 64-bit. For a 32-bit architecture such as arm
> (e.g. armv7-a) and aarch32, this still happens because the operand types
> (pkt->pkt_len and sizeof) are 32-bit wide, performing 32-bit arithmetic
> first (where the overflow can happen) and widening to 64-bit later.
> 
> The proposed fix simply guarantees to the compiler that the scope which
> fills buf_vec is accessed at least once, while not disrupting the actual
> logic. This is based on the assumption that size will always be greater
> than 0, as suggested by the sizeof, and the packet length will never be
> as big as UINT32_MAX, and causing an overflow.
> 
> Fixes: 873e8dad6f49 ("vhost: support packed ring in async datapath")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Vizzarro <luca.vizzarro@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Szczepanek <paul.szczepanek@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Nick Connolly <nick.connolly@arm.com>
> ---
>   lib/vhost/virtio_net.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Maxime