Re: [PATCH 11/11] hypervisor: Revisit Coverity issues regarding cpumap

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On 01/30/2013 11:51 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
> Turns out the issue regarding ptr_arith and sign_exension weren't false
> positives. When shifting an 'unsigned char' as a target, it gets promoted
> to an 'int'; however, that 'int' cannot be shifted 32 bits which was how
> the algorithm was written. For the ptr_arith rather than index into the
> cpumap, change the to address as necessary and assign directly.
> ---
>  src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c | 10 +++++-----

>          for (j = 0; j < maplen; j++) {
> -            /* coverity[ptr_arith] */
> -            /* coverity[sign_extension] */
> -            *(pm + (j / 8)) |= cpumap[j] << (8 * (j & 7));
> +            if ((j & 7) == 0)
> +                pm = (uint64_t *)((uint64_t)&xen_cpumap + (j & ~0x7UL));

I'm not happy with how this turned out.  We are turning an address into
a pointer but not via intptr_t (probably warnings on mingw); then doing
math on that pointer, then turning the result back into a uint64_t
pointer.  It looks like we are risking alignment errors.

> +            *pm |= (uint64_t)cpumap[j] << (8 * (j & 7));

This part looks better, although I can see why you had to push a
followup to silence a false negative compiler warning about pm
potentially being used uninitialized.

I still think we can do a better job; the whole goal of this code is to
write an endian-specific ordering of a multiple of 8 bytes; I can't help
but wonder if my concurrent work on a new virendian.h header would be a
nicer-looking solution here.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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