[PATCH][next] gpio: xilinx: Fix potential integer overflow on shift of a u32 int
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon May 17 06:36:43 PDT 2021
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:07:20AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:26 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at 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?
I wrote a little benchmark to see which was faster and they're the same
as far as I can see.
regards,
dan carpenter
static inline __attribute__((__gnu_inline__)) unsigned long xgpio_set_value_orig(unsigned long *map, int bit, u32 v)
{
int shift = (bit % 64) & ((((1UL))) << (5));
return v << shift;
}
static inline __attribute__((__gnu_inline__)) unsigned long xgpio_set_value_new(unsigned long *map, int bit, u32 v)
{
int shift = (bit % 64) ? 32 : 0;
return v << shift;
}
int main(void)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < INT_MAX; i++)
xgpio_set_value_orig(NULL, i, 0);
// for (i = 0; i < INT_MAX; i++)
// xgpio_set_value_new(NULL, i, 0);
return 0;
}
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