netdev - Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in min()/max()

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Date:   Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:59:11 +0000
From:   Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        corbet@....net, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...sulko.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel.h: Skip single-eval logic on literals in
 min()/max()

On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 13:40 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> +#define __min(t1, t2, x, y)						\
> +	__builtin_choose_expr(__builtin_constant_p(x) &&		\
> +			      __builtin_constant_p(y) &&		\
> +			      __builtin_types_compatible_p(t1, t2),	\
> +			      (t1)(x) < (t2)(y) ? (t1)(x) : (t2)(y),	\
> +			      __single_eval_min(t1, t2,			\
> +						__UNIQUE_ID(max1_),	\
> +						__UNIQUE_ID(max2_),	\

min1_ etc?

Ian.