[PATCH 6.1 018/127] word-at-a-time: use the same return type for has_zero regardless of endianness

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-08-09T10:52:01Z

From: ndesaulniers@google.com <ndesaulniers@google.com>

[ Upstream commit 79e8328e5acbe691bbde029a52c89d70dcbc22f3 ]

Compiling big-endian targets with Clang produces the diagnostic:

fs/namei.c:2173:13: warning: use of bitwise '|' with boolean operands [-Wbitwise-instead-of-logical]
} while (!(has_zero(a, &adata, &constants) | has_zero(b, &bdata, &constants)));
~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
||
fs/namei.c:2173:13: note: cast one or both operands to int to silence this warning

It appears that when has_zero was introduced, two definitions were
produced with different signatures (in particular different return
types).

Looking at the usage in hash_name() in fs/namei.c, I suspect that
has_zero() is meant to be invoked twice per while loop iteration; using
logical-or would not update `bdata` when `a` did not have zeros. So I
think it's preferred to always return an unsigned long rather than a
bool than update the while loop in hash_name() to use a logical-or
rather than bitwise-or.

[ Also changed powerpc version to do the same - Linus ]

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1832
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230801-bitwise-v1-1-799bec468dc4@google.com/
Fixes: 36126f8f2ed8 ("word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic")
Debugged-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 2 +-
include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
index 46c31fb8748d5..30a12d2086871 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static inline long find_zero(unsigned long mask)
return leading_zero_bits >> 3;
}

-static inline bool has_zero(unsigned long val, unsigned long *data, const struct word_at_a_time *c)
+static inline unsigned long has_zero(unsigned long val, unsigned long *data, const struct word_at_a_time *c)
{
unsigned long rhs = val | c->low_bits;
*data = rhs;
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h b/include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h
index 20c93f08c9933..95a1d214108a5 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static inline long find_zero(unsigned long mask)
return (mask >> 8) ? byte : byte + 1;
}

-static inline bool has_zero(unsigned long val, unsigned long *data, const struct word_at_a_time *c)
+static inline unsigned long has_zero(unsigned long val, unsigned long *data, const struct word_at_a_time *c)
{
unsigned long rhs = val | c->low_bits;
*data = rhs;
--
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