Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Verify that arguments to swap() are the sametype

From: Amerigo Wang
Date: Wed Jul 15 2009 - 23:17:16 EST


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 06:34:21PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Hmm, sounds reasonable.

Does this catch any actual wrong usages of swap()?

Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>


>diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
>index d6320a3..72878a5 100644
>--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
>+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
>@@ -637,8 +637,13 @@ static inline void ftrace_dump(void) { }
> /*
> * swap - swap value of @a and @b
> */
>-#define swap(a, b) \
>- do { typeof(a) __tmp = (a); (a) = (b); (b) = __tmp; } while (0)
>+#define swap(a, b) \
>+do { \
>+ typeof(a) __tmp = (a); \
>+ BUILD_BUG_ON(!__same_type(__tmp, (b))); \
>+ (a) = (b); \
>+ (b) = __tmp; \
>+} while (0)
>
> /**
> * container_of - cast a member of a structure out to the containing structure
>
>
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