Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible

Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-08T03:22:00Z

On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 03:47:44PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > diff --git a/lib/test_vmalloc.c b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> > index 4f2f2d1bac56..56ffaa8dd3f6 100644
> > --- a/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> > +++ b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> > @@ -151,9 +151,7 @@ static int random_size_alloc_test(void)
> > int i;
> >
> > for (i = 0; i < test_loop_count; i++) {
> > - n = prandom_u32();
> > - n = (n % 100) + 1;
> > -
> > + n = prandom_u32_max(n % 100) + 1;
> > p = vmalloc(n * PAGE_SIZE);
> >
> > if (!p)
>
> This looks wrong. Cocci says:
>
> - n = prandom_u32();
> - n = (n % 100) + 1;
> + n = prandom_u32_max(100) + 1;

I agree that's wrong, but what rule did you use to make Cocci generate
that?

Jason