Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752179AbaFDJM6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 05:12:58 -0400 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:7781 "EHLO mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751776AbaFDJKA (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jun 2014 05:10:00 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.98,972,1392159600"; d="scan'208";a="65385496" From: Julia Lawall To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Vineet Gupta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 5/10] ARC: use safer test on the result of find_first_zero_bit Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:07:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1401872880-23685-6-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.2 In-Reply-To: <1401872880-23685-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> References: <1401872880-23685-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall Find_first_zero_bit considers BITS_PER_LONG bits at a time, and thus may return a larger number than the maximum position argument if that position is not a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression e1,e2,e3; statement S1,S2; @@ e1 = find_first_zero_bit(e2,e3) ... if (e1 - == + >= e3) S1 else S2 // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c --- a/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int arc_pmu_add(struct perf_event if (__test_and_set_bit(idx, arc_pmu->used_mask)) { idx = find_first_zero_bit(arc_pmu->used_mask, arc_pmu->n_counters); - if (idx == arc_pmu->n_counters) + if (idx >= arc_pmu->n_counters) return -EAGAIN; __set_bit(idx, arc_pmu->used_mask); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/