[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk v7 2/4] Avoid clang warnings on casts with stricter alignment requirements

Frediano Ziglio fziglio at redhat.com
Thu Jun 8 10:17:31 UTC 2017


> 
> From: Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin at redhat.com>
> 
> For example, something like this:
>     uint8_t  *p8;
>     uint32_t *p32 = (uint32_t *) p8;
> 
> generates a warning like this:
>   spice-channel.c:1350:10: error: cast from 'uint8_t *' (aka 'unsigned char
>   *') to
>       'uint32_t *' (aka 'unsigned int *') increases required alignment from 1
>       to
>       4 [-Werror,-Wcast-align]
> 
> The warning indicates that we end up with a pointer to data that
> should be 4-byte aligned, but its value may be misaligned. On x86,
> this does not make much of a difference, except a relatively minor
> performance penalty. However, on platforms such as older ARM, misaligned
> accesses are emulated by the kernel, and support for them is optional.
> So we may end up with a fault.
> 
> The intent of the fix here is to make it easy to identify and rework
> places where actual mis-alignment occurs. Wherever casts raise the warning,
> they are replaced with a macro:
> 
> - SPICE_ALIGNED_CAST(type, value) casts value to type, and indicates that
>   we believe the resulting pointer is aligned. If it is not, a runtime
>   warning will be issued.
> 
> - SPICE_UNALIGNED_CAST(type, value) casts value to type, and indicates that
>   we believe the resulting pointer is not always aligned
> 
> Any code using SPICE_UNALIGNED_CAST may need to be revisited in order
> to improve performance, e.g. by using memcpy.
> 
> There are normally no warnings for SPICE_UNALIGNED_CAST, but it is possible
> to emit debug messages for mis-alignment in SPICE_UNALIGNED_CAST.
> Set environment variable SPICE_DEBUG_ALIGNMENT to activate this check.
> 
> Runtime warnings are enabled by the --enable-alignment-checks configure
> option (or #define SPICE_DEBUG_ALIGNMENT).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin at redhat.com>

Honestly I would start nacking this patch.

Or you disable the warning or you fix it where possible and leave
the warning for a time when we'll really need to fix it.

Frediano

> ---
>  configure.ac                |  8 ++++++++
>  spice-common                |  2 +-
>  src/channel-cursor.c        |  4 ++--
>  src/channel-display-mjpeg.c |  2 +-
>  src/channel-main.c          |  2 +-
>  src/continuation.h          |  6 ++++--
>  src/decode-glz-tmpl.c       |  2 +-
>  src/spice-channel.c         | 14 +++++++++-----
>  8 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 62acafc..caa289a 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -565,6 +565,14 @@ else
>    SPICE_WARNING([No D-Bus support, desktop integration and USB redirection
>    may not work properly])
>  fi
>  
> +AC_ARG_ENABLE([alignment-checks],
> +  AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-alignment-checks],
> +                 [Enable runtime checks for cast alignment
> @<:@default=no@:>@]),
> +  [],
> +  enable_alignment_checks="no")
> +AS_IF([test "x$enable_alignment_checks" = "xyes"],
> +      [AC_DEFINE([SPICE_DEBUG_ALIGNMENT], 1, [Enable runtime checks for cast
> alignment])])
> +
>  SPICE_CHECK_LZ4
>  
>  dnl
>  ===========================================================================
> diff --git a/spice-common b/spice-common
> index af682b1..8cbfedc 160000
> --- a/spice-common
> +++ b/spice-common
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -Subproject commit af682b1b06dea55007d9aa7c37cd443e4349e43f
> +Subproject commit 8cbfedc08fdf6be68cabd5afd781f61ae01b577b
> diff --git a/src/channel-cursor.c b/src/channel-cursor.c
> index 558c920..80d2410 100644
> --- a/src/channel-cursor.c
> +++ b/src/channel-cursor.c
> @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ static display_cursor *set_cursor(SpiceChannel *channel,
> SpiceCursor *scursor)
>          size /= 2u;
>          for (i = 0; i < hdr->width * hdr->height; i++) {
>              pix_mask = get_pix_mask(data, size, i);
> -            pix = *((guint16*)data + i);
> +            pix = *(SPICE_ALIGNED_CAST(guint16 *, data) + i);
>              if (pix_mask && pix == 0x7fff) {
>                  cursor->data[i] = get_pix_hack(i, hdr->width);
>              } else {

we know this is not aligned, either fix or ignore the warning!

> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ static display_cursor *set_cursor(SpiceChannel *channel,
> SpiceCursor *scursor)
>          for (i = 0; i < hdr->width * hdr->height; i++) {
>              pix_mask = get_pix_mask(data, size + (sizeof(uint32_t) << 4),
>              i);
>              int idx = (i & 1) ? (data[i >> 1] & 0x0f) : ((data[i >> 1] &
>              0xf0) >> 4);
> -            pix = *((uint32_t*)(data + size) + idx);
> +            pix = *(SPICE_UNALIGNED_CAST(uint32_t *, (data + size)) + idx);
>              if (pix_mask && pix == 0xffffff) {
>                  cursor->data[i] = get_pix_hack(i, hdr->width);
>              } else {

Did you revert the memcpy ??

> diff --git a/src/channel-display-mjpeg.c b/src/channel-display-mjpeg.c
> index 3ae9d21..ee33b01 100644
> --- a/src/channel-display-mjpeg.c
> +++ b/src/channel-display-mjpeg.c
> @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static gboolean mjpeg_decoder_decode_frame(gpointer
> video_decoder)
>  #ifndef JCS_EXTENSIONS
>          {
>              uint8_t *s = lines[0];
> -            uint32_t *d = (uint32_t *)s;
> +            uint32_t *d = SPICE_ALIGNED_CAST(uint32_t *, s);
>  
>              if (back_compat) {
>                  for (unsigned int j = lines_read * width; j > 0; ) {

Here we are not sure, the warning is fine.

> diff --git a/src/channel-main.c b/src/channel-main.c
> index 29dd42d..1202d13 100644
> --- a/src/channel-main.c
> +++ b/src/channel-main.c
> @@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ static void
> main_agent_handle_xfer_status(SpiceMainChannel *channel,
>                                      _("The spice agent reported an error
>                                      during the file transfer"));
>          break;
>      case VD_AGENT_FILE_XFER_STATUS_NOT_ENOUGH_SPACE: {
> -        uint64_t *free_space = (uint64_t *)(msg->data);
> +        uint64_t *free_space = SPICE_ALIGNED_CAST(uint64_t *, msg->data);
>          gchar *free_space_str = g_format_size(*free_space);
>          gchar *file_size_str =
>          g_format_size(spice_file_transfer_task_get_total_bytes(xfer_task));
>          error = g_error_new(SPICE_CLIENT_ERROR, SPICE_CLIENT_ERROR_FAILED,

This should be fixed.

> diff --git a/src/continuation.h b/src/continuation.h
> index 675a257..d1fd137 100644
> --- a/src/continuation.h
> +++ b/src/continuation.h
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>  #ifndef _CONTINUATION_H_
>  #define _CONTINUATION_H_
>  
> +#include "spice-common.h"
>  #include <stddef.h>
>  #include <ucontext.h>
>  #include <setjmp.h>
> @@ -48,8 +49,9 @@ int cc_release(struct continuation *cc);
>  int cc_swap(struct continuation *from, struct continuation *to);
>  
>  #define offset_of(type, member) ((unsigned long)(&((type *)0)->member))
> -#define container_of(obj, type, member) \
> -        (type *)(((char *)obj) - offset_of(type, member))
> +#define container_of(obj, type, member)                                 \
> +        SPICE_ALIGNED_CAST(type *,                                      \
> +                           (((char *)obj) - offset_of(type, member)))
>  
>  #endif
>  /*

as already explained cast to void* before char*.

> diff --git a/src/decode-glz-tmpl.c b/src/decode-glz-tmpl.c
> index b337a8b..76d832c 100644
> --- a/src/decode-glz-tmpl.c
> +++ b/src/decode-glz-tmpl.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static size_t FNAME(decode)(SpiceGlzDecoderWindow
> *window,
>                              uint64_t image_id, SpicePalette *plt)
>  {
>      uint8_t      *ip = in_buf;
> -    OUT_PIXEL    *out_pix_buf = (OUT_PIXEL *)out_buf;
> +    OUT_PIXEL    *out_pix_buf = SPICE_ALIGNED_CAST(OUT_PIXEL *, out_buf);
>      OUT_PIXEL    *op = out_pix_buf;
>      OUT_PIXEL    *op_limit = out_pix_buf + size;
>  

no need to check anything

> diff --git a/src/spice-channel.c b/src/spice-channel.c
> index 77ac9cd..3b6d839 100644
> --- a/src/spice-channel.c
> +++ b/src/spice-channel.c
> @@ -1312,6 +1312,7 @@ static void spice_channel_send_link(SpiceChannel
> *channel)
>  {
>      SpiceChannelPrivate *c = channel->priv;
>      uint8_t *buffer, *p;
> +    uint32_t *caps;
>      int protocol, i;
>      SpiceLinkMess link_msg;
>  
> @@ -1357,14 +1358,15 @@ static void spice_channel_send_link(SpiceChannel
> *channel)
>      memcpy(p, &c->link_hdr, sizeof(c->link_hdr)); p += sizeof(c->link_hdr);
>      memcpy(p, &link_msg, sizeof(link_msg)); p += sizeof(link_msg);
>  
> +    // Need this to avoid error with -Wcast-align
> +    caps = SPICE_UNALIGNED_CAST(uint32_t *,p);
>      for (i = 0; i < c->common_caps->len; i++) {
> -        *(uint32_t *)p = GUINT32_TO_LE(g_array_index(c->common_caps,
> uint32_t, i));
> -        p += sizeof(uint32_t);
> +        *caps++ = GUINT32_TO_LE(g_array_index(c->common_caps, uint32_t, i));
>      }
>      for (i = 0; i < c->caps->len; i++) {
> -        *(uint32_t *)p = GUINT32_TO_LE(g_array_index(c->caps, uint32_t, i));
> -        p += sizeof(uint32_t);
> +        *caps++ = GUINT32_TO_LE(g_array_index(c->caps, uint32_t, i));
>      }
> +    p = (uint8_t *) caps;
>      CHANNEL_DEBUG(channel, "channel type %d id %d num common caps %u num
>      caps %u",
>                    c->channel_type,
>                    c->channel_id,

why did you revert the fix? It's hard to review patches if you keep
going back and forth.

> @@ -1888,6 +1890,7 @@ static gboolean
> spice_channel_recv_link_msg(SpiceChannel *channel)
>      SpiceChannelPrivate *c;
>      int rc, num_caps, i;
>      uint32_t *caps, num_channel_caps, num_common_caps;
> +    uint8_t *caps_src;
>      SpiceChannelEvent event = SPICE_CHANNEL_ERROR_LINK;
>  
>      g_return_val_if_fail(channel != NULL, FALSE);
> @@ -1927,7 +1930,8 @@ static gboolean
> spice_channel_recv_link_msg(SpiceChannel *channel)
>      /* see original spice/client code: */
>      /* g_return_if_fail(c->peer_msg + c->peer_msg->caps_offset *
>      sizeof(uint32_t) > c->peer_msg + c->peer_hdr.size); */
>  
> -    caps = (uint32_t *)((uint8_t *)c->peer_msg +
> GUINT32_FROM_LE(c->peer_msg->caps_offset));
> +    caps_src = (uint8_t *)c->peer_msg +
> GUINT32_FROM_LE(c->peer_msg->caps_offset);
> +    caps = SPICE_UNALIGNED_CAST(uint32_t *, caps_src);
>  
>      g_array_set_size(c->remote_common_caps, num_common_caps);
>      for (i = 0; i < num_common_caps; i++, caps++) {

same

Frediano


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