Re: [PATCH 1/2] bitops: Avoid integer overflow warning in GENMASK_ULL

From: Yury Norov
Date: Thu Aug 03 2017 - 09:25:31 EST


On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:51:58PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> GENMASK_ULL performs a left-shift of (~0ULL), which technically
> results in an integer overflow. clang raises a warning about
> this if the overflow occurs in a preprocessor expression. To
> avoid the overflow first perform a right-shift to clear the
> bits that are shifted out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/bitops.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
> index a83c822c35c2..21dfe63001e3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bitops.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
> (((~0UL) << (l)) & (~0UL >> (BITS_PER_LONG - 1 - (h))))

Once you touche GENMASK_ULL, why not to fix also GENMASK.

>
> #define GENMASK_ULL(h, l) \
> - (((~0ULL) << (l)) & (~0ULL >> (BITS_PER_LONG_LONG - 1 - (h))))
> + ((((~0ULL) >> (l)) << (l)) & (~0ULL >> (BITS_PER_LONG_LONG - 1 - (h))))
>
> extern unsigned int __sw_hweight8(unsigned int w);
> extern unsigned int __sw_hweight16(unsigned int w);
> --
> 2.14.0.rc1.383.gd1ce394fe2-goog
>
>
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