Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, CPUID: Correct operator precedence whengenerating mask

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Sep 21 2010 - 08:00:35 EST


From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:11:43AM -0400

> Since this is a non-manifest bug there really doesn't seem to be any
> reason to bother stable with it.

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From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Sep 21 13:56:59 CEST 2010
Subject: [PATCH] x86, CPUID: Correct operator precedence when generating mask

NEED_<cpufeature> masks used in the CPU feature testing macros are
cutoff at the last 5 bits to prevent overflow since the cpu feature
words are 32-bit-wide bitfields. Fix this for the PSE and PGE masks too.

This wasn't a real problem since the PSE and PGE bits are nicely < 31.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
index 6c7fc25..0df924d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
#define NEED_PSE 0
#define NEED_PGE 0
#else
-#define NEED_PSE (1<<(X86_FEATURE_PSE) & 31)
-#define NEED_PGE (1<<(X86_FEATURE_PGE) & 31)
+#define NEED_PSE (1<<(X86_FEATURE_PSE & 31))
+#define NEED_PGE (1<<(X86_FEATURE_PGE & 31))
#endif
#define NEED_MSR (1<<(X86_FEATURE_MSR & 31))
#define NEED_FXSR (1<<(X86_FEATURE_FXSR & 31))
--
1.7.1


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Boris.

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