Re: [PATCH] futex: avoid undefined behaviour when shift exponent is negative

From: zhong jiang
Date: Fri Aug 25 2017 - 22:53:02 EST


On 2017/8/26 5:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, zhong jiang wrote:
>> From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:05:56 +0800
>> Subject: [PATCH v2] futex: avoid undefined behaviour when shift exponent is
>> negative
> Please do not send patches without changing the subject line so it's clear
> that there is a new patch.
ok
>> using a shift value < 0 or > 31 will get crap as a result. because
>> it's just undefined. The issue still disturb me, so I try to fix
>> it again by excluding the especially condition.
> Which is obsolete now as this code is unified accross all architectures and
> the shift issue is addressed in the generic version of it. So all
> architectures get the same fix. See:
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> http://git.kernel.org/tip/30d6e0a4190d37740e9447e4e4815f06992dd8c3
ok , I miss the above patch.
> And no, we won't add that x86 fix before that unification hits mainline
> because that undefined behaviour is harmless as it only affects the user
> space value of the futex. IOW, the caller gets what it asked for: crap.
Thank you for clarification.

Regards
zhongjiang
> Thanks,
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> tglx
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