Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | [PATCH] irqdesc: Use bool return type instead of int | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:29:39 +0000 |
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The irq_balancing_disabled and irq_is_percpu{,_devid} functions are clearly intended to return bool like the functions in kernel/irq/settings.h, but actually return an int containing a masked value of desc->status_use_accessors. This can lead to subtle breakage if, for example, the return value is subsequently truncated when assigned to a narrower type.
As Linus points out:
| In particular, what can (and _has_ happened) is that people end up | using these functions that return true or false, and they assign the | result to something like a bitfield (or a char) or whatever. | | And the code looks *obviously* correct, when you have things like | | dev->percpu = irq_is_percpu_devid(dev->irq); | | and that "percpu" thing is just one status bit among many. It may even | *work*, because maybe that "percpu" flag ends up not being all that | important, or it just happens to never be set on the particular | hardware that people end up testing. | | But while it looks obviously correct, and might even work, it's really | fundamentally broken. Because that "true or false" function didn't | actually return 0/1, it returned 0 or 0x20000. | | And 0x20000 may not fit in a bitmask or a "char" or whatever.
Fix the problem by consistently using bool as the return type for these functions.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> --- include/linux/irqdesc.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/irqdesc.h b/include/linux/irqdesc.h index dd418955962b..39fb3700f7a9 100644 --- a/include/linux/irqdesc.h +++ b/include/linux/irqdesc.h @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ irq_set_chip_handler_name_locked(struct irq_data *data, struct irq_chip *chip, data->chip = chip; } -static inline int irq_balancing_disabled(unsigned int irq) +static inline bool irq_balancing_disabled(unsigned int irq) { struct irq_desc *desc; @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static inline int irq_balancing_disabled(unsigned int irq) return desc->status_use_accessors & IRQ_NO_BALANCING_MASK; } -static inline int irq_is_percpu(unsigned int irq) +static inline bool irq_is_percpu(unsigned int irq) { struct irq_desc *desc; @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static inline int irq_is_percpu(unsigned int irq) return desc->status_use_accessors & IRQ_PER_CPU; } -static inline int irq_is_percpu_devid(unsigned int irq) +static inline bool irq_is_percpu_devid(unsigned int irq) { struct irq_desc *desc; -- 2.1.4
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