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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [for-linus][PATCH 01/10] tracing: Suppress sparse warnings triggered by is_signed_type()
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:20:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YwWY5KrhY0RGpC4l@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YwWWoQXmVc8uasBh@ZenIV>

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 04:10:25AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> *IF* you want to go that way, I would suggest a new return value for
> restricted_binop() ("comparison with magical value"), with
> something like
> 		switch (restricted_binop(op, ctype)) {
> 		case 1:
> 		....
> 
> 		default:
> 			break;
> 		case 4:
> 			// comparison with magic value:
> 			// quietly go for underlying type, if not fouled
> 			// if fouled, just return NULL and let the caller
> 			// deal with that - loudly.
> 			if (!(lclass & rclass & TYPE_FOULED))

 			if (!((lclass | rclass) & TYPE_FOULED))

that is - we don't need both of them being fouled to trigger a warning;
either one should suffice.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-24  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-21  0:07 [for-linus][PATCH 00/10] tracing: Fixes for 6.0 Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 01/10] tracing: Suppress sparse warnings triggered by is_signed_type() Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21 18:35   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-21 19:55     ` Steven Rostedt
2022-08-22 18:20     ` Bart Van Assche
2022-08-22 18:45       ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-22 20:19         ` Bart Van Assche
2022-08-23  7:06         ` Rasmus Villemoes
2022-08-23 22:05           ` Bart Van Assche
2022-08-23 23:18             ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-23 23:57               ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-24  2:09                 ` Al Viro
2022-08-24  2:16                   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-24  3:10                   ` Al Viro
2022-08-24  3:20                     ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-08-24  5:56                     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-24  0:09               ` Bart Van Assche
2022-08-24  1:49                 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-24  2:11                   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-24  3:47                     ` Bart Van Assche
2022-08-24  3:46                   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-08-24 23:28                   ` Bart Van Assche
2022-08-25  0:30                     ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-25  0:40                       ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-25  7:57                         ` Rasmus Villemoes
2022-08-25  8:07                           ` Linus Torvalds
2022-08-25 17:39                         ` Bart Van Assche
2022-08-25 18:17                           ` Kees Cook
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 02/10] tracing: React to error return from traceprobe_parse_event_name() Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 03/10] tracing/perf: Fix double put of trace event when init fails Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 04/10] ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 05/10] tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 06/10] tracing/eprobes: Do not hardcode $comm as a string Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 07/10] tracing/eprobes: Fix reading of string fields Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 08/10] tracing/eprobes: Have event probes be consistent with kprobes and uprobes Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 09/10] tracing/probes: Have kprobes and uprobes use $COMM too Steven Rostedt
2022-08-21  0:07 ` [for-linus][PATCH 10/10] tracing: Have filter accept "common_cpu" to be consistent Steven Rostedt

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