Ryan O'Hara reported that haproxy breaks on fedora-32 using gcc-10
(pre-release). It turns out that constructs such as:
while (item != head) {
item = LIST_ELEM(item.n);
}
loop forever, never matching <item> to <head> despite a printf there
showing them equal. In practice the problem is that the LIST_ELEM()
macro is wrong, it assigns the subtract of two pointers (an integer)
to another pointer through a cast to its pointer type. And GCC 10 now
considers that this cannot match a pointer and silently optimizes the
comparison away. A tested workaround for this is to build with
-fno-tree-pta. Note that older gcc versions even with -ftree-pta do
not exhibit this rather surprizing behavior.
This patch changes the test to instead cast the null-based address to
an int to get the offset and subtract it from the pointer, and this
time it works. There were just a few places to adjust. Ideally
offsetof() should be used but the LIST_ELEM() API doesn't make this
trivial as it's commonly called with a typeof(ptr) and not typeof(ptr*)
thus it would require to completely change the whole API, which is not
something workable in the short term, especially for a backport.
With this change, the emitted code is subtly different even on older
versions. A code size reduction of ~600 bytes and a total executable
size reduction of ~1kB are expected to be observed and should not be
taken as an anomaly. Typically this loop in dequeue_proxy_listeners() :
while ((listener = MT_LIST_POP(...)))
used to produce this code where the comparison is performed on RAX
while the new offset is assigned to RDI even though both are always
identical:
53ded8: 48 8d 78 c0 lea -0x40(%rax),%rdi
53dedc: 48 83 f8 40 cmp $0x40,%rax
53dee0: 74 39 je 53df1b <dequeue_proxy_listeners+0xab>
and now produces this one which is slightly more efficient as the
same register is used for both purposes:
53dd08: 48 83 ef 40 sub $0x40,%rdi
53dd0c: 74 2d je 53dd3b <dequeue_proxy_listeners+0x9b>
Similarly, retrieving the channel from a stream_interface using si_ic()
and si_oc() used to cause this (stream-int in rdi):
1cb7: c7 47 1c 00 02 00 00 movl $0x200,0x1c(%rdi)
1cbe: f6 47 04 10 testb $0x10,0x4(%rdi)
1cc2: 74 1c je 1ce0 <si_report_error+0x30>
1cc4: 48 81 ef 00 03 00 00 sub $0x300,%rdi
1ccb: 81 4f 10 00 08 00 00 orl $0x800,0x10(%rdi)
and now causes this:
1cb7: c7 47 1c 00 02 00 00 movl $0x200,0x1c(%rdi)
1cbe: f6 47 04 10 testb $0x10,0x4(%rdi)
1cc2: 74 1c je 1ce0 <si_report_error+0x30>
1cc4: 81 8f 10 fd ff ff 00 orl $0x800,-0x2f0(%rdi)
There is extremely little chance that this fix wakes up a dormant bug as
the emitted code effectively does what the source code intends.
This must be backported to all supported branches (dropping MT_LIST_ELEM
and the spoa_example parts as needed), since the bug is subtle and may
not always be visible even when compiling with gcc-10.
I found on an (old) AIX 5.1 machine that stdint.h didn't exist while
inttypes.h which is expected to include it does exist and provides the
desired functionalities.
As explained here, stdint being just a subset of inttypes for use in
freestanding environments, it's probably always OK to switch to inttypes
instead:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/basedefs/stdint.h.html
Also it's even clearer here in the autoconf doc :
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.61/html_node/Header-Portability.html
"The C99 standard says that inttypes.h includes stdint.h, so there's
no need to include stdint.h separately in a standard environment.
Some implementations have inttypes.h but not stdint.h (e.g., Solaris
7), but we don't know of any implementation that has stdint.h but not
inttypes.h"
Being an external agent, it's confusing that it uses haproxy's internal
types and it seems to have encouraged other implementations to do so.
Let's completely remove any reference to struct sample and use the
native DATA types instead of converting to and from haproxy's sample
types.
