Re: [PATCH v6 01/38] minmax: Add in_range() macro

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On 8/3/2023 9:22 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 09:00:35PM +0800, Phi Nguyen wrote:
On 8/2/2023 11:13 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
+static inline bool in_range64(u64 val, u64 start, u64 len)
+{
+	return (val - start) < len;
+}
+
+static inline bool in_range32(u32 val, u32 start, u32 len)
+{
+	return (val - start) < len;
+}
+

I think these two functions return wrong result if val is smaller than start
and len is big enough.

How is it that you stopped reading at exactly the point where I explained
that this is intentional?

+/**
+ * in_range - Determine if a value lies within a range.
+ * @val: Value to test.
+ * @start: First value in range.
+ * @len: Number of values in range.
+ *
+ * This is more efficient than "if (start <= val && val < (start + len))".
+ * It also gives a different answer if @start + @len overflows the size of
+ * the type by a sufficient amount to encompass @val.  Decide for yourself
+ * which behaviour you want, or prove that start + len never overflow.
+ * Do not blindly replace one form with the other.
+ */


Oh, sorry, I see, my bad.



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