linux-kernel - Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in ./arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h

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Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2016 10:15:15 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@...sung.com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        aryabinin@...tuozzo.com, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in ./arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 01:45:33PM +0900, Seung-Woo Kim wrote:
> With the patch "arm: ubsan: select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL", I got
> following UBSAN warning on Exynos5422 SoC board.

Well, the simple solution is to have fls() and ffs() take unsigned int
arguments rather than ints - but the question that brings up is: why
do both of these take signed ints?  It seems at least to me that it
would be more sensible for these to take unsigned int, or even
unsigned long like the other bitops do.

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