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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] eal: fix signed integers in fbarray
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:14:25 +0100
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On 14-Apr-18 11:03 AM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 13-Apr-18 7:43 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote:
>> While debugging startup issues encountered with Clang (see "eal: fix
>> undefined behavior in fbarray"), I noticed that fbarray stores indices,
>> sizes and masks on signed integers involved in bitwise operations.
>>
>> Such operations almost invariably cause undefined behavior with values 
>> that
>> cannot be represented by the result type, as is often the case with
>> bit-masks and left-shifts.
>>
>> This patch replaces them with unsigned integers as a safety measure and
>> promotes a few internal variables to larger types for consistency.
>>
>> Fixes: c44d09811b40 ("eal: add shared indexed file-backed array")
>> Cc: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> v3 changes:
>>
>> - Added INT_MAX upper bound check in fully_validate() as suggested by
>>    Anatoly.
>> - Added a sysconf() result check to appease Coverity since 
>> calc_data_size()
>>    now takes an unsigned page size (Coverity issues 272598 and 272599).
>>
>> v2 changes:
>>
>> Removed unnecessary "(unsigned int)" cast leftovers.
> 
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> 

Still ack, but i think Coverity issues need to be moved to main commit 
message, as opposed to being in patch notes.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly