From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
anton@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] arch-powerpc: Return false instead of -EFAULT
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:18:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1442481536-11088-1-git-send-email-peter.senna@gmail.com> (raw)
Returning a negative value for a boolean function seem to have the
undesired effect of returning true. Replace -EINVAL by false in a
bool-returning function.
The diff of the .s file before and after the change (using cross
compilation) starts with:
440,441c440,441
< .L43:
< li 3,1 # D.25775,
---
> .L42:
> li 3,0 # D.25775,
...
while if -EFAULT is replaced by true, the diff is empty.
There is only one call site, and it expects a boolean value:
arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c:129:
if (!is_module_trampoline(tramp)) {
pr_err("Not a trampoline\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
This issue was found by the following Coccinelle semantic patch:
<smpl>
@@
identifier f;
constant C;
typedef bool;
@@
bool f (...){
<+...
* return -C;
...+>
}
</smpl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index 6838451..a94a5f1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ bool is_module_trampoline(u32 *p)
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(ppc64_stub_insns) != sizeof(ppc64_stub_mask));
if (probe_kernel_read(insns, p, sizeof(insns)))
- return -EFAULT;
+ return false;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ppc64_stub_insns); i++) {
u32 insna = insns[i];
--
2.1.0
next reply other threads:[~2015-09-17 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-17 9:18 Peter Senna Tschudin [this message]
2015-09-17 9:47 ` [PATCH] arch-powerpc: Return false instead of -EFAULT Michael Ellerman
2015-09-17 9:58 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
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