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authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>2018-02-16 13:20:48 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-02-17 08:40:59 +0100
commitb98c6a160a057d5686a8c54c79cc6c8c94a7d0c8 (patch)
treee979c785507b89961879b6b8658576ce04cf0321 /include/linux/nospec.h
parent1d91c1d2c80cb70e2e553845e278b87a960c04da (diff)
nospec: Allow index argument to have const-qualified type
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 <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 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 <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/nospec.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/nospec.h3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nospec.h b/include/linux/nospec.h
index d6701e34424f..172a19dc35ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/nospec.h
+++ b/include/linux/nospec.h
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_mask_nospec(unsigned long 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 */