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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] overflow.h: Add arithmetic shift helper
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:48:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180801154841.GA10824@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180801080724.2vgzagooda56aypw@mwanda>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:07:24AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:57:44AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The idea is nice, but I don't like the API.  The "_overflow" feels too
> > specific because maybe we could check for other things in the future.
> > Normally boolean macros should say they are boolean in the name and I
> > would prefer if it returned zero on failure.
> > 
> > 	if (!checked_shift(dest, mask, shift)) {
> > 	if (!shift_ok(dest, mask, shift)) {
> > 	if (!safe_shift(dest, mask, shift)) {
> 
> Huh...  It turns out I put the argument order different as well.
> 
> If we wanted to keep it returning 1 on failure then some other names
> are:
> 
> 	if (shift_failed(dest, mask, shift)) {
> 	if (shift_error(dest, mask, shift)) {
> 	if (shift_overflow(dest, mask, shift)) {

I think this ship has sailed, the convention for these tests is
already established in overflow.h. ie:

check_add_overflow
check_sub_overflow
check_mul_overflow

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-01 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-01  0:00 [PATCH v2 0/3] overflow.h: Add arithmetic shift helper Kees Cook
2018-08-01  0:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Kees Cook
2018-08-01  1:59   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-08-01  2:15   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-08-01  4:22     ` Kees Cook
2018-08-01  7:57   ` Dan Carpenter
2018-08-01  8:07     ` Dan Carpenter
2018-08-01 15:38       ` Kees Cook
2018-08-01 15:48       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2018-08-01  0:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] test_overflow: Add shift overflow tests Kees Cook
2018-08-01  2:13   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-08-01  5:51     ` Kees Cook
2018-08-01  0:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] RDMA/mlx5: Fix shift overflow in mlx5_ib_create_wq Kees Cook

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