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From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	 Shubhrajyoti Datta <shubhrajyoti.datta@xilinx.com>,
	Srinivas Neeli <srinivas.neeli@xilinx.com>,
	 Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	 Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
	 Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	 "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	 linux-arm Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	 kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] gpio: xilinx: Fix potential integer overflow on shift of a u32 int
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 10:07:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75Ve-YWh_sfupwQV0xxL7Vk8GNObJ+6O29RqRMXCgAmemCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210514053754.GZ1955@kadam>

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:26 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:52:27AM +0100, Colin King wrote:

...

> >       const unsigned long offset = (bit % BITS_PER_LONG) & BIT(5);
> >
> >       map[index] &= ~(0xFFFFFFFFul << offset);
> > -     map[index] |= v << offset;
> > +     map[index] |= (unsigned long)v << offset;
>
> Doing a shift by BIT(5) is super weird.

Not the first place in the kernel with such a trick.

>  It looks like a double shift
> bug and should probably trigger a static checker warning.  It's like
> when people do BIT(BIT(5)).
>
> It would be more readable to write it as:
>
>         int shift = (bit % BITS_PER_LONG) ? 32 : 0;

Usually this code is in a kinda fast path. Have you checked if the
compiler generates the same or better code when you are using ternary?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-17  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-13  8:52 [PATCH][next] gpio: xilinx: Fix potential integer overflow on shift of a u32 int Colin King
2021-05-13  9:10 ` David Laight
2021-05-17  7:04   ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-14  5:37 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-05-17  7:07   ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-05-17 13:36     ` Dan Carpenter
2021-05-17 13:49       ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-17  7:03 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-05-17  7:32   ` Andy Shevchenko

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