netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix link error in 32bit arch because of 64bit division

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 06:32:21 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Vishwanath Pai <vpai@...mai.com>
Cc:     pablo@...filter.org, kaber@...sh.net, kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu,
        johunt@...mai.com, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        coreteam@...filter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        pai.vishwain@...il.com, zlpnobody@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix link error in 32bit arch because of 64bit division

On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 03:42 -0400, Vishwanath Pai wrote:
> Fix link error in 32bit arch because of 64bit division
> 
> Division of 64bit integers will cause linker error undefined reference
> to `__udivdi3'. Fix this by replacing divisions with div64_64
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vishwanath Pai <vpai@...mai.com>
> 
> ---
>  net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c | 15 ++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
> index 44a095e..7fc694e 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c
> @@ -465,19 +465,20 @@ static u64 user2credits(u64 user, int revision)
>  {
>  	if (revision == 1) {
>  		/* If multiplying would overflow... */
> -		if (user > 0xFFFFFFFF / (HZ*CREDITS_PER_JIFFY_v1))
> +		if (user > div64_u64(0xFFFFFFFF, (HZ*CREDITS_PER_JIFFY_v1)))

How can this be needed ? 0xFFFFFFFF is 32bits, compiler knows how to
compute 0xFFFFFFFF / (HZ*CREDITS_PER_JIFFY_v1) itself, without using a
64 bit divide !

Please be selective.

>  			/* Divide first. */
> -			return (user / XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE) *\
> +			return div64_u64(user, XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE) *\
>  						HZ * CREDITS_PER_JIFFY_v1;
>  
> -		return (user * HZ * CREDITS_PER_JIFFY_v1) \
> -						/ XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE;
> +		return div64_u64((user * HZ * CREDITS_PER_JIFFY_v1),
> +				  XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE);
>  	} else {
> -		if (user > 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF / (HZ*CREDITS_PER_JIFFY))
> -			return (user / XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE_v2) *\

Probably same remark here.

> +		if (user > div64_u64(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, (HZ*CREDITS_PER_JIFFY)))
> +			return div64_u64(user, XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE_v2) *\
>  						HZ * CREDITS_PER_JIFFY;
>  
> -		return (user * HZ * CREDITS_PER_JIFFY) / XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE_v2;
> +		return div64_u64((user * HZ * CREDITS_PER_JIFFY),
> +				 XT_HASHLIMIT_SCALE_v2);
>  	}
>  }
>