Re: [PATCH] riscv/atomic: Do proper sign extension also for unsigned in arch_cmpxchg

Andreas Schwab
2025-02-03T08:42:04Z

On Jan 30 2025, David Laight wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:25:38 +0100
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> Sign extend also an unsigned compare value to match what lr.w is doing.
>> Otherwise try_cmpxchg may spuriously return true when used on a u32 value
>> that has the sign bit set, as it happens often in inode_set_ctime_current.
>>
>> Do this in three conversion steps. The first conversion to long is needed
>> to avoid a -Wpointer-to-int-cast warning when arch_cmpxchg is used with a
>> pointer type.
>
> Doesn't that break things by discarding the high bits of a pointer value?

If you have 32-bit pointers then the conversions are no-ops.

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