x86, cpufeature: Catch duplicate CPU feature strings
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:47:15 +0000 (11:47 -0700)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:02:13 +0000 (09:02 -0700)
We had a case of duplicate CPU feature strings, a user space ABI
violation, for almost two years.  Make it a build error so that
doesn't happen again.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE34BCB.5050305@linux.intel.com
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mkcapflags.pl

index dfea390..0c5b549 100644 (file)
@@ -11,22 +11,35 @@ open(OUT, "> $out\0") or die "$0: cannot create: $out: $!\n";
 print OUT "#include <asm/cpufeature.h>\n\n";
 print OUT "const char * const x86_cap_flags[NCAPINTS*32] = {\n";
 
+%features = ();
+$err = 0;
+
 while (defined($line = <IN>)) {
        if ($line =~ /^\s*\#\s*define\s+(X86_FEATURE_(\S+))\s+(.*)$/) {
                $macro = $1;
-               $feature = $2;
+               $feature = "\L$2";
                $tail = $3;
                if ($tail =~ /\/\*\s*\"([^"]*)\".*\*\//) {
-                       $feature = $1;
+                       $feature = "\L$1";
                }
 
-               if ($feature ne '') {
-                       printf OUT "\t%-32s = \"%s\",\n",
-                               "[$macro]", "\L$feature";
+               next if ($feature eq '');
+
+               if ($features{$feature}++) {
+                       print STDERR "$in: duplicate feature name: $feature\n";
+                       $err++;
                }
+               printf OUT "\t%-32s = \"%s\",%s\n", "[$macro]", $feature;
        }
 }
 print OUT "};\n";
 
 close(IN);
 close(OUT);
+
+if ($err) {
+       unlink($out);
+       exit(1);
+}
+
+exit(0);