This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
log2: make order_base_2() behave correctly on const input value zero
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
log2-make-order_base_2-behave-correctly-on-const-input-value-zero.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 29905b52fad0854351f57bab867647e4982285bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 18:05:26 +0000
Subject: log2: make order_base_2() behave correctly on const input value zero
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 29905b52fad0854351f57bab867647e4982285bf upstream.
The function order_base_2() is defined (according to the comment block)
as returning zero on input zero, but subsequently passes the input into
roundup_pow_of_two(), which is explicitly undefined for input zero.
This has gone unnoticed until now, but optimization passes in GCC 7 may
produce constant folded function instances where a constant value of
zero is passed into order_base_2(), resulting in link errors against the
deliberately undefined '____ilog2_NaN'.
So update order_base_2() to adhere to its own documented interface.
[ See
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147672952517795&w=2
and follow-up discussion for more background. The gcc "optimization
pass" is really just broken, but now the GCC trunk problem seems to
have escaped out of just specially built daily images, so we need to
work around it in mainline. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/log2.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/log2.h
+++ b/include/linux/log2.h
@@ -194,6 +194,17 @@ unsigned long __rounddown_pow_of_two(uns
* ... and so on.
*/
-#define order_base_2(n) ilog2(roundup_pow_of_two(n))
+static inline __attribute_const__
+int __order_base_2(unsigned long n)
+{
+ return n > 1 ? ilog2(n - 1) + 1 : 0;
+}
+#define order_base_2(n) \
+( \
+ __builtin_constant_p(n) ? ( \
+ ((n) == 0 || (n) == 1) ? 0 : \
+ ilog2((n) - 1) + 1) : \
+ __order_base_2(n) \
+)
#endif /* _LINUX_LOG2_H */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/log2-make-order_base_2-behave-correctly-on-const-input-value-zero.patch