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From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbridge@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1517:25
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 19:03:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A798DB.8000200@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1601261023300.2062-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On 01/26/2016 06:25 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> 
>> Booting 4.5.0-rc1 with new UBSAN checker enabled:
>>
>> [    4.556968] ================================================================================
>> [    4.556972] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1517:25
>> [    4.556975] shift exponent -1 is negative
> 
> Does a left shift by a negative amount matter if the result isn't used?
> 

By definition, any code with undefined behavior could do anything.
But in practice, undefined shift just leads to undefined result of shift operation
(it depends on operands and architecture).


> Alan Stern
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-26 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26 10:11 UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1517:25 Chris Bainbridge
2016-01-26 15:25 ` Alan Stern
2016-01-26 16:03   ` Andrey Ryabinin [this message]
2016-01-26 16:43     ` Greg KH

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