svn commit: r351364 - in head/sys: crypto/blowfish crypto/chacha20 crypto/des opencrypto

[Conrad Meyer]

At expected peril of wading into a thread >4 emails deep,

@Warner, modern GCC reports a similar warning; it just doesn't become
an error (at least in CI?).  I'm not sure of the mechanism.  Maybe
CI-specific?  Old GCC didn't have a -Wno-error for -Wcast-qual, so
-Wcast-qual + -Werror there produced an error; that's why
$NO_WCAST_QUAL in conf/kern.mk is defined to -Wno-cast-qual for old
GCC but -Wno-error=cast-qual for newer compilers.  That said, this
file does not appear to be compiled with ${NO_WCAST_QUAL} either way.

@Bjoern,

So... why does GCC warn about this? key is const uint8_t*.  The cast
is to const des_cblock *.  I think the problem is that des_cblock is
defined as 'unsigned char [8]', so a 'const des cblock *' is actually
a 'const unsigned char**'?  So... I think basically the entire des
subsystem may be accidentally using the wrong pointer level
throughout?  The constify change just exposes that because correct
const-preserving cast of 'const foo*' to 'foo**' would be 'foo * const
*' (if I'm understanding this correctly).

Maybe one more reason to excise des from the tree.

Best,
Conrad


On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 9:59 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 23 Aug 2019, at 16:48, Warner Losh wrote:
> > There's a lot of -Wno-error and -Wno-error=XXX sprinkled in our build
> > for
> > gcc 4.2.1 today, so we see the warnings but aren't stopped by them. My
> > changes take a big hammer and add a global -Wno-error to CFLAGS last
> > to
> > make this the behavior on gcc 4.2.1 platforms.
>
>
> Yes, but that didn’t answer my questions.  It doesn’t help to try to
> avoid undefined C behaviour.
>
> That jenkins build seems to use the toolchain from ports and with that
> gcc 6.4.0.
>
> We see the same warning but it didn’t error as it seems to have done
> for other architectures with the in-tree gcc with the same warnings:
>
> In file included from /workspace/src/sys/opencrypto/xform.c:94:0:
> /workspace/src/sys/opencrypto/xform_des1.c: In function 'des1_setkey':
> /workspace/src/sys/opencrypto/xform_des1.c:102:15: warning: cast
> discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wcast-qual]
>     des_set_key((const des_cblock *) key, p[0]);
>                 ^
> In file included from /workspace/src/sys/opencrypto/xform.c:95:0:
> /workspace/src/sys/opencrypto/xform_des3.c: In function 'des3_setkey':
> /workspace/src/sys/opencrypto/xform_des3.c:103:15: warning: cast
> discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wcast-qual]
>     des_set_key((const des_cblock *)(key +  0), p[0]);
>                 ^
> /workspace/src/sys/opencrypto/xform_des3.c:104:15: warning: cast
> discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wcast-qual]
>     des_set_key((const des_cblock *)(key +  8), p[1]);
>                 ^
> /workspace/src/sys/opencrypto/xform_des3.c:105:15: warning: cast
> discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wcast-qual]
>     des_set_key((const des_cblock *)(key + 16), p[2]);
>                 ^
> --
>
>
>
> To me this means that we treat different versions of compilers (in-tree
> and out-of-tree, gcc vs. clang) too different.
>
> If two versions of gcc (before your commit) gave the same warning I
> would have expected them to equally fail and not one fail and one pass?
>
> My question was:  why was that the case?
>
> /bz
>