linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 158/177] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fix incorrect comparison in memord

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Message-Id: <20171218152918.208349505@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:49:41 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, David Binderman <dcb314@...mail.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 158/177] powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fix incorrect comparison in memord

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>


[ Upstream commit 05c14c03138532a3cb2aa29c2960445c8753343b ]

In the hv-24x7 code there is a function memord() which tries to
implement a sort function return -1, 0, 1. However one of the
conditions is incorrect, such that it can never be true, because we
will have already returned.

I don't believe there is a bug in practice though, because the
comparisons are an optimisation prior to calling memcmp().

Fix it by swapping the second comparision, so it can be true.

Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@...mail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static int memord(const void *d1, size_t
 {
 	if (s1 < s2)
 		return 1;
-	if (s2 > s1)
+	if (s1 > s2)
 		return -1;
 
 	return memcmp(d1, d2, s1);