linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/10] ARC: use safer test on the result of find_first_zero

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Message-Id: <1401872880-23685-6-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Date:	Wed,  4 Jun 2014 11:07:55 +0200
From:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/10] ARC: use safer test on the result of find_first_zero_bit

From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

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/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression e1,e2,e3;
statement S1,S2;
@@

e1 = find_first_zero_bit(e2,e3)
...
if (e1 
- ==
+ >=
  e3)
S1 else S2
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>

---
 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);

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