The patch titled Subject: linux/bits.h: add compile time sanity check of GENMASK inputs has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was linux-bitsh-add-compile-time-sanity-check-of-genmask-inputs.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: linux/bits.h: add compile time sanity check of GENMASK inputs GENMASK() and GENMASK_ULL() are supposed to be called with the high bit as the first argument and the low bit as the second argument. Mixing them will return a mask with zero bits set. Recent commits show getting this wrong is not uncommon, see e.g. commit aa4c0c9091b0 ("net: stmmac: Fix misuses of GENMASK macro") and commit 9bdd7bb3a844 ("clocksource/drivers/npcm: Fix misuse of GENMASK macro"). To prevent such mistakes from appearing again, add compile time sanity checking to the arguments of GENMASK() and GENMASK_ULL(). If both the arguments are known at compile time, and the low bit is higher than the high bit, break the build to detect the mistake immediately. Since GENMASK() is used in declarations, BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO() must be used instead of BUILD_BUG_ON(), and __is_constexpr() must be used instead of __builtin_constant_p(). If successful, BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO() returns 0 of type size_t. To avoid problems with implicit conversions, cast the result of BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO to unsigned long. Since both BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO() and __is_constexpr() only uses sizeof() on the arguments passed to them, neither of them evaluate the expression unless it is a VLA. Therefore, GENMASK(1, x++) still behaves as expected. Commit 95b980d62d52 ("linux/bits.h: make BIT(), GENMASK(), and friends available in assembly") made the macros in linux/bits.h available in assembly. Since neither BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO() or __is_constexpr() are asm compatible, disable the checks if the file is included in an asm file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190801230358.4193-2-rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190729143109.18683-1-johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/bits.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/bits.h~linux-bitsh-add-compile-time-sanity-check-of-genmask-inputs +++ a/include/linux/bits.h @@ -18,12 +18,30 @@ * position @high. For example * GENMASK_ULL(39, 21) gives us the 64bit vector 0x000000ffffe00000. */ -#define GENMASK(high, low) \ +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ +#include <linux/build_bug.h> +#define GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(high, low) \ + ((unsigned long)BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(__builtin_choose_expr( \ + __is_constexpr(high) && __is_constexpr(low), \ + (low) > (high), UL(0)))) +#else +/* + * BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO and __is_constexpr() are not available in h files + * included from asm files, disable the input check if that is the case. + */ +#define GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(high, low) UL(0) +#endif + +#define __GENMASK(high, low) \ (((~UL(0)) - (UL(1) << (low)) + 1) & \ (~UL(0) >> (BITS_PER_LONG - 1 - (high)))) +#define GENMASK(high, low) \ + (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(high, low) + __GENMASK(high, low)) -#define GENMASK_ULL(high, low) \ +#define __GENMASK_ULL(high, low) \ (((~ULL(0)) - (ULL(1) << (low)) + 1) & \ (~ULL(0) >> (BITS_PER_LONG_LONG - 1 - (high)))) +#define GENMASK_ULL(high, low) \ + (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(high, low) + __GENMASK_ULL(high, low)) #endif /* __LINUX_BITS_H */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx are linux-bitsh-clarify-macro-argument-names.patch