From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45168 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965821AbeCGTrv (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2018 14:47:51 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Rasmus Villemoes , Dan Williams , Linus Torvalds , Andy Lutomirski , Arjan van de Ven , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , David Woodhouse , Josh Poimboeuf , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Will Deacon , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH 4.14 090/110] nospec: Allow index argument to have const-qualified type Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 11:39:13 -0800 Message-Id: <20180307191051.371755939@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180307191039.748351103@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180307191039.748351103@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rasmus Villemoes commit b98c6a160a057d5686a8c54c79cc6c8c94a7d0c8 upstream. The last expression in a statement expression need not be a bare variable, quoting gcc docs The last thing in the compound statement should be an expression followed by a semicolon; the value of this subexpression serves as the value of the entire construct. and we already use that in e.g. the min/max macros which end with a ternary expression. This way, we can allow index to have const-qualified type, which will in some cases avoid the need for introducing a local copy of index of non-const qualified type. That, in turn, can prevent readers not familiar with the internals of array_index_nospec from wondering about the seemingly redundant extra variable, and I think that's worthwhile considering how confusing the whole _nospec business is. The expression _i&_mask has type unsigned long (since that is the type of _mask, and the BUILD_BUG_ONs guarantee that _i will get promoted to that), so in order not to change the type of the whole expression, add a cast back to typeof(_i). Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151881604837.17395.10812767547837568328.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/nospec.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/nospec.h +++ b/include/linux/nospec.h @@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_i) > sizeof(long)); \ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long)); \ \ - _i &= _mask; \ - _i; \ + (typeof(_i)) (_i & _mask); \ }) #endif /* _LINUX_NOSPEC_H */