Re: [PATCH 2/2] locking/atomics: Check atomic headers with sha1sum

[Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 05:50:35PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> We currently check the atomic headers at build-time to ensure they
> haven't been modified directly, and these checks require regenerating
> the headers in full. As this takes a few seconds, even when
> parallelized, this is too slow to run for every kernel build.
> 
> Instead, we can generate a hash of each header as we generate them,
> which we can cheaply check at build time (~0.16s for all headers).
> 
> This patch does so, updating headers with their hashes using the new
> gen-atomics.sh script. As some users apparently build the kernel wihout
> coreutils, lacking sha1sum, the checks are skipped in this case.
> Presumably, most developers have a working coreutils installation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---
>  include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h |  1 +
>  include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h         |  1 +
>  include/linux/atomic-fallback.h           |  1 +
>  scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh           | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
>  scripts/atomic/gen-atomics.sh             | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/atomic/gen-atomics.sh
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h b/include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h
> index b8f5b35216e1..e8730c6b9fe2 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h
> @@ -1785,3 +1785,4 @@ atomic64_dec_if_positive(atomic64_t *v)
>  })
>  
>  #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_ATOMIC_INSTRUMENTED_H */
> +// b29b625d5de9280f680e42c7be859b55b15e5f6a
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h b/include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h
> index a833d385a70b..881c7e27af28 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h
> @@ -1010,3 +1010,4 @@ atomic_long_dec_if_positive(atomic_long_t *v)
>  
>  #endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
>  #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_ATOMIC_LONG_H */
> +// 77558968132ce4f911ad53f6f52ce423006f6268
> diff --git a/include/linux/atomic-fallback.h b/include/linux/atomic-fallback.h
> index 1c02c0112fbb..a7d240e465c0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/atomic-fallback.h
> +++ b/include/linux/atomic-fallback.h
> @@ -2292,3 +2292,4 @@ atomic64_dec_if_positive(atomic64_t *v)
>  #define atomic64_cond_read_relaxed(v, c) smp_cond_load_relaxed(&(v)->counter, (c))
>  
>  #endif /* _LINUX_ATOMIC_FALLBACK_H */
> +// 25de4a2804d70f57e994fe3b419148658bb5378a
> diff --git a/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh b/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> index c30101cddf2d..cfa0c2f71c84 100755
> --- a/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> +++ b/scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> @@ -7,13 +7,27 @@ ATOMICDIR=$(dirname $0)
>  ATOMICTBL=${ATOMICDIR}/atomics.tbl
>  LINUXDIR=${ATOMICDIR}/../..
>  
> +echo '' | sha1sum - > /dev/null 2>&1
> +if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
> +	printf "sha1sum not available, skipping atomic header checks.\n"
> +	exit 0
> +fi
> +
>  cat <<EOF |
> -gen-atomic-instrumented.sh      asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h
> -gen-atomic-long.sh              asm-generic/atomic-long.h
> -gen-atomic-fallback.sh          linux/atomic-fallback.h
> +asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h
> +asm-generic/atomic-long.h
> +linux/atomic-fallback.h
>  EOF
> -while read script header; do
> -	if ! (${ATOMICDIR}/${script} ${ATOMICTBL} | diff - ${LINUXDIR}/include/${header} > /dev/null); then
> -		printf "warning: include/${header} is out-of-date.\n"
> +while read header; do
> +	OLDSUM="$(tail -n 1 ${LINUXDIR}/include/${header})"
> +	OLDSUM="${OLDSUM#// }"
> +
> +	NEWSUM="$(head -n -1 ${LINUXDIR}/include/${header} | sha1sum)"
> +	NEWSUM="${NEWSUM%% *}"

Here we're relying on head and tail being available, but it looks like
they're also part of coreutils, so that should be fine.

> +
> +	if [ "${OLDSUM}" != "${NEWSUM}" ]; then
> +		printf "warning: generated include/${header} has been modified.\n"
>  	fi
>  done
> +
> +exit 0
> diff --git a/scripts/atomic/gen-atomics.sh b/scripts/atomic/gen-atomics.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..27400b0cd732
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/atomic/gen-atomics.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +#
> +# Generate atomic headers
> +
> +ATOMICDIR=$(dirname $0)
> +ATOMICTBL=${ATOMICDIR}/atomics.tbl
> +LINUXDIR=${ATOMICDIR}/../..
> +
> +cat <<EOF |
> +gen-atomic-instrumented.sh      asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h
> +gen-atomic-long.sh              asm-generic/atomic-long.h
> +gen-atomic-fallback.sh          linux/atomic-fallback.h
> +EOF
> +while read script header; do
> +	${ATOMICDIR}/${script} ${ATOMICTBL} > ${LINUXDIR}/include/${header}
> +	HASH="$(sha1sum ${LINUXDIR}/include/${header})"
> +	HASH="${HASH%% *}"
> +	printf "// %s\n" "${HASH}" >> ${LINUXDIR}/include/${header}
> +done

Thanks, this looks sensible to me:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Will