build_bug.h: more user friendly error messages in BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO()
__BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG(), as introduced in [1], makes it possible to do a static assertions in expressions. The direct benefit is to provide a meaningful error message instead of the cryptic negative bitfield size error message currently returned by BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(): ./include/linux/build_bug.h:16:51: error: negative width in bit-field '<anonymous>' 16 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); }))) | ^ Get rid of BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO()'s bitfield size hack. Instead rely on __BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG() which in turn relies on C11's _Static_assert(). Use some macro magic, similarly to static_assert(), to either use an optional error message provided by the user or, when omitted, to produce a default error message by stringifying the tested expression. With this, for example: BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(1 > 0) would now throw: ./include/linux/compiler.h:197:62: error: static assertion failed: "1 > 0 is true" 197 | define __BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG(e, msg) ((int)sizeof(struct {_Static_assert(!(e), msg);})) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finally, __BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO_MSG() is already guarded by an: #ifdef __CHECKER__ So no need any more for that guard clause for BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(). Remove it. [1] commit d7a516c6 ("compiler.h: Fix undefined BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO()") Link: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/d7a516c6eeae Signed-off-by:Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr> Link: https://git.kernel.org/next/linux-next/c/b88937277df Reviewed-by:
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
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