On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:11 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When testing in userspace, UBSAN pointed out that shifting into the sign
> bit is undefined behaviour. It doesn't really make sense to ask for the
> highest set bit of a negative value, so just turn the argument type into
> an unsigned int.
>
> Some architectures (eg ppc) already had it declared as an unsigned int,
> so I don't expect too many problems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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