When built at -Os, gcc-12 recognizes an strlen() pattern in nolibc_strlen()
and replaces it with a jump to strlen(), which is not defined as a symbol
and breaks compilation. Worse, when the function is called strlen(), the
function is simply replaced with a jump to itself, hence becomes an
infinite loop.
One way to avoid this is to always set -ffreestanding, but the calling
code doesn't know this and there's no way (either via attributes or
pragmas) to globally enable it from include files, effectively leaving
a painful situation for the caller.
Alexey suggested to place an empty asm() statement inside the loop to
stop gcc from recognizing a well-known pattern, which happens to work
pretty fine. At least it allows us to make sure our local definition
is not replaced with a self jump.
The function only needs to be renamed back to strlen() so that the symbol
exists, which implies that nolibc_strlen() which is used on variable
strings has to be declared as a macro that points back to it before the
strlen() macro is redifined.
It was verified to produce valid code with gcc 3.4 to 12.1 at different
optimization levels, and both with constant and variable strings.
In case this problem surfaces again in the future, an alternate approach
consisting in adding an optimize("no-tree-loop-distribute-patterns")
function attribute for gcc>=12 worked as well but is less pretty.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202210081618.754a77db-yujie.liu@intel.com
Fixes: 66b6f755ad ("rcutorture: Import a copy of nolibc")
Fixes: 96980b833a ("tools/nolibc/string: do not use __builtin_strlen() at -O0")
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
These functions are currently only available on architectures that have
my_syscall6() macro implemented. Since these functions use malloc(),
malloc() uses mmap(), mmap() depends on my_syscall6() macro.
On architectures that don't support my_syscall6(), these function will
always return NULL with errno set to ENOSYS.
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
size_t strnlen(const char *str, size_t maxlen);
The strnlen() function returns the number of bytes in the string
pointed to by sstr, excluding the terminating null byte ('\0'), but at
most maxlen. In doing this, strnlen() looks only at the first maxlen
characters in the string pointed to by str and never beyond str[maxlen-1].
The first use case of this function is for determining the memory
allocation size in the strndup() function.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAOG64qMpEMh+EkOfjNdAoueC+uQyT2Uv3689_sOr37-JxdJf4g@mail.gmail.com
Suggested-by: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <alviro.iskandar@gnuweeb.org>
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
clang wants to use strlen() for __builtin_strlen() at -O0. We don't
really care about -O0 but it at least ought to build, so let's make
sure we don't choke on this, by dropping the optimizationn for
constant strings in this case.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
We need these functions all the time, including when checking environment
variables and parsing command-line arguments. These implementations were
optimized to show optimal code size on a wide range of compilers (22 bytes
return included for strcmp(), 33 for strncmp()).
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
"clang -Os" and "gcc -Ofast" without -ffreestanding may ignore memset()
and memmove(), hoping to provide their builtin equivalents, and finally
not find them. Thus we must export these functions for these rare cases.
Note that as they're set in their own sections, they will be eliminated
by the linker if not used. In addition, they do not prevent gcc from
identifying them and replacing them with the shorter "rep movsb" or
"rep stosb" when relevant.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Some functions like raise() and memcpy() are permanently exported because
they're needed by libgcc on certain platforms. However most of the time
they are not needed and needlessly take space.
Let's move them to their own sub-section, called .text.nolibc_<function>.
This allows ld to get rid of them if unused when passed --gc-sections.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
While these functions are often dangerous, forcing the user to work
around their absence is often much worse. Let's provide small versions
of each of them. The respective sizes in bytes on a few architectures
are:
strncat(): x86:0x33 mips:0x68 arm:0x3c
strlcat(): x86:0x25 mips:0x4c arm:0x2c
The two are quite different, and strncat() is even different from
strncpy() in that it limits the amount of data it copies and will always
terminate the output by one zero, while strlcat() will always limit the
total output to the specified size and will put a zero if possible.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
These are minimal variants. strncpy() always fills the destination for
<size> chars, while strlcpy() copies no more than <size> including the
zero and returns the source's length. The respective sizes on various
archs are:
strncpy(): x86:0x1f mips:0x30 arm:0x20
strlcpy(): x86:0x17 mips:0x34 arm:0x1a
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The direction test inside the loop was not always completely optimized,
resulting in a larger than necessary function. This change adds a
direction variable that is set out of the loop. Now the function is down
to 48 bytes on x86, 32 on ARM and 68 on mips. It's worth noting that other
approaches were attempted (including relying on the up and down functions)
but they were only slightly beneficial on x86 and cost more on others.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Till now memcpy() relies on memmove(), but it's always included for libgcc,
so we have a larger than needed function. Let's implement two unidirectional
variants to copy from bottom to top and from top to bottom, and use the
former for memcpy(). The variants are optimized to be compact, and at the
same time the compiler is sometimes able to detect the loop and to replace
it with a "rep movsb". The new function is 24 bytes instead of 52 on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The string manipulation functions (mem*, str*) are now found in
string.h. The file depends on almost nothing and will be
usable from other includes if needed. Maybe more functions could
be added.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
