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1 From d944d9527b3c2dc21ec3418fa17a37b06328a903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
3 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:38:45 -0700
4 Subject: lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp
5
6 [ Upstream commit 5f074f3e192f10c9fade898b9b3b8812e3d83342 ]
7
8 A recent optimization in Clang (r355672) lowers comparisons of the
9 return value of memcmp against zero to comparisons of the return value
10 of bcmp against zero. This helps some platforms that implement bcmp
11 more efficiently than memcmp. glibc simply aliases bcmp to memcmp, but
12 an optimized implementation is in the works.
13
14 This results in linkage failures for all targets with Clang due to the
15 undefined symbol. For now, just implement bcmp as a tailcail to memcmp
16 to unbreak the build. This routine can be further optimized in the
17 future.
18
19 Other ideas discussed:
20
21 * A weak alias was discussed, but breaks for architectures that define
22 their own implementations of memcmp since aliases to declarations are
23 not permitted (only definitions). Arch-specific memcmp
24 implementations typically declare memcmp in C headers, but implement
25 them in assembly.
26
27 * -ffreestanding also is used sporadically throughout the kernel.
28
29 * -fno-builtin-bcmp doesn't work when doing LTO.
30
31 Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035
32 Link: https://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/string/memcmp.c.html#bcmp
33 Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8e16d73346f8091461319a7dfc4ddd18eedcff13
34 Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/416
35 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190313211335.165605-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
36 Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
37 Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
38 Reported-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
39 Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
40 Suggested-by: James Y Knight <jyknight@google.com>
41 Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
42 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
43 Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
44 Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
45 Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
46 Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
47 Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
48 Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
49 Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
50 Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
51 Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
52 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
53 Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
54 Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
55 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
56 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
57 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
58 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
59 ---
60 include/linux/string.h | 3 +++
61 lib/string.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
62 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
63
64 diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
65 index 4a5a0eb7df51..f58e1ef76572 100644
66 --- a/include/linux/string.h
67 +++ b/include/linux/string.h
68 @@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ extern void * memscan(void *,int,__kernel_size_t);
69 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCMP
70 extern int memcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
71 #endif
72 +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_BCMP
73 +extern int bcmp(const void *,const void *,__kernel_size_t);
74 +#endif
75 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCHR
76 extern void * memchr(const void *,int,__kernel_size_t);
77 #endif
78 diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
79 index 2c0900a5d51a..72125fd5b4a6 100644
80 --- a/lib/string.c
81 +++ b/lib/string.c
82 @@ -865,6 +865,26 @@ __visible int memcmp(const void *cs, const void *ct, size_t count)
83 EXPORT_SYMBOL(memcmp);
84 #endif
85
86 +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_BCMP
87 +/**
88 + * bcmp - returns 0 if and only if the buffers have identical contents.
89 + * @a: pointer to first buffer.
90 + * @b: pointer to second buffer.
91 + * @len: size of buffers.
92 + *
93 + * The sign or magnitude of a non-zero return value has no particular
94 + * meaning, and architectures may implement their own more efficient bcmp(). So
95 + * while this particular implementation is a simple (tail) call to memcmp, do
96 + * not rely on anything but whether the return value is zero or non-zero.
97 + */
98 +#undef bcmp
99 +int bcmp(const void *a, const void *b, size_t len)
100 +{
101 + return memcmp(a, b, len);
102 +}
103 +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bcmp);
104 +#endif
105 +
106 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSCAN
107 /**
108 * memscan - Find a character in an area of memory.
109 --
110 2.19.1
111