lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:   Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:40:00 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>
Cc:     Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "saeedm@...lanox.com" <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        "kernel-team@...com" <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] mlx5: Add MLX5_SET64_VCHK to fix BUILD_BUG_ON

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:46:45AM -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Saeed Mahameed
> <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:50 PM, David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:
> >> From: Tom Herbert
> >>> Sent: 11 October 2016 05:22
> >> ...
> >>> Fix is to create MLX5_SET64_VCHK that takes an additional argument
> >>> that is a constant. There are two callers of MLX5_SET64 that are
> >>> trying to get a variable offset, change those to call MLX5_SET64_VCHK
> >>> passing pas[0] as the argument to use in the offset check.
> >>
> >> I think I'd separate the array index instead.
> >> Something like:
> >>
> >> #define MLX5_SET64_INDEXED(typ, p, fld, ndx, v) do { \
> >>         BUILD_BUG_ON(__mlx5_bit_off(typ, fld) % 64); \
> >>         __MLX5_SET64(typ, p, fld[ndx], v); \
> >> } while (0)
> >>
> >>         David
> >
> > Yes, I think this looks more natural, but instead MLX5_SET64_INDEXED,
> > I prefer to have 2 macros
> > MLX5_SET64(typ, p, fld, v) and MLX5_ARRAY_SET64(typ, p, fld, idx, v).
> >
> > Tom, do you want me to fix it ?
> >
> Please do.

Saeed,

Do you success to send this patch before -rc1 is released? So Linus's
-rc1 will be clean from such build error.

>
> > Thanks,
> > Saeed.

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (820 bytes)

Powered by blists - more mailing lists