Re: [PATCH 5.14 018/334] nbd: add the check to prevent overflow in __nbd_ioctl()

Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-13T20:02:48Z

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:57 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 9:53 PM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built
> Linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:39 AM Nick Desaulniers
> > <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > There's an issue with my alternative approach
> > > (https://gist.github.com/nickdesaulniers/2479818f4983bbf2d688cebbab435863)
> > > with declaring the local variable z in div_64() since either operand
> > > could be 64b, which result in an unwanted truncation if the dividend
> > > is 32b (or less, and divisor is 64b). I think (what I realized this
> > > weekend) is that we might be able to replace the `if` with
> > > `__builtin_choose_expr`, then have that whole expression be the final
> > > statement and thus the "return value" of the statement expression.
> >
> > Christ...that...works? Though, did Linus just merge my patches for gcc 5.1?
> >
>
> "Merge branch 'gcc-min-version-5.1' (make gcc-5.1 the minimum version)"

Ha! I pulled+rebased and this code disappeared...I thought I had
rebased on the wrong branch or committed work to master accidentally.
Patch to stable-only inbound.
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers