Hi Joe, I like the idea. I'll take a look at the cases you mention and see if I can make them work with your version of swap. BTW, I wonder if it would be more convenient to trigger a build warning instead of an error. What do you think? Thanks -- Gustavo On 07/18/2018 01:31 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 12:19 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: >> swap > > Perhaps the swap macro should verify that the > swap(a, b) arguments are the same type. > > Something like the patch below, but this patch > causes a compilation failure on at least a couple > cases that aren't obviously correct in > > net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_bitmap_port.c > where a u16 is swapped with a u32. > > and > > net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netport.c > where a single bit bitfield is swapped with a u8 > --- > include/linux/kernel.h | 11 ++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h > index d6aac75b51ba..506b59e0da24 100644 > --- a/include/linux/kernel.h > +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h > @@ -969,14 +969,19 @@ static inline void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode) { } > */ > #define clamp_val(val, lo, hi) clamp_t(typeof(val), val, lo, hi) > > - > /** > * swap - swap values of @a and @b > * @a: first value > * @b: second value > + * @a and @b must be the same type > */ > -#define swap(a, b) \ > - do { typeof(a) __tmp = (a); (a) = (b); (b) = __tmp; } while (0) > +#define swap(a, b) \ > +do { \ > + typeof(a) __tmp = (a); \ > + BUILD_BUG_ON(!__same_type(typeof(a), typeof(b))); \ > + (a) = (b); \ > + (b) = __tmp; \ > +} while (0) > > /* This counts to 12. Any more, it will return 13th argument. */ > #define __COUNT_ARGS(_0, _1, _2, _3, _4, _5, _6, _7, _8, _9, _10, _11, _12, _n, X...) _n >