From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner > Sent: 16 September 2016 14:45 > To: David Laight > Cc: 'Neil Horman'; linux-sctp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix SSN comparision > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:40:47AM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:33:47PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > > > > > -static inline int ADDIP_SERIAL_gte(__u16 s, __u16 t) > > > > > +static inline int ADDIP_SERIAL_gte(__u32 s, __u32 t) > > > > > { > > > > > return ((s) == (t)) || (((t) - (s)) & ADDIP_SERIAL_SIGN_BIT); > > > > > } > > > > > > Does gcc manage to compile that to (s32)((t) - (s)) <= 0 ? > > > > I have no idea but I have a patch in the works for updating it to this > > form, to be more like time_after(). Will probably post it by next week. > > Just for reference, this should be it. Not realy tested yet. > > commit b52575533dfefa1908c7bbe35bde0fa8359dd1a3 > Author: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Aug 9 14:45:35 2016 -0300 > > sctp: improve how SSN, TSN and ASCONF serial are compared > > Make it similar to time_before() macros instead. > > This patch also removes SSN_lte as it is not used. ... > +#define TSN_lte(a,b) \ > + (typecheck(__u32, a) && \ > + typecheck(__u32, b) && \ > + ((__s32)((a) - (b)) <= 0)) ... > + for (i = 0; i < blocks; ++i) { > + if (TSN_lte((__u32)ntohs(frags[i].gab.start), (__u32)gap) && > + TSN_lte((__u32)gap, (__u32)ntohs(frags[i].gab.end))) Those casts look decidedly dubious, messy at best. I'm pretty sure you're not managing modulo 2^16 arithmetic either. I think you want: #define TSN_lte(a, b) ((__s16)((a) - (b)) <= 0) If a and b are 16bit the subtract is always well defined. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html