From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The last expression in a statement expression need not be a bare variable, quoting gcc docs The last thing in the compound statement should be an expression followed by a semicolon; the value of this subexpression serves as the value of the entire construct. and we already use that in e.g. the min/max macros which end with a ternary expression. This way, we can allow index to have const-qualified type, which will in some cases avoid the need for introducing a local copy of index of non-const qualified type. That, in turn, can prevent readers not familiar with the internals of array_index_nospec from wondering about the seemingly redundant extra variable, and I think that's worthwhile considering how confusing the whole _nospec business is. The expression _i&_mask has type unsigned long (since that is the type of _mask, and the BUILD_BUG_ONs guarantee that _i will get promoted to that), so in order not to change the type of the whole expression, add a cast back to typeof(_i). Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/nospec.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/nospec.h b/include/linux/nospec.h index d6701e34424f..172a19dc35ab 100644 --- a/include/linux/nospec.h +++ b/include/linux/nospec.h @@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ static inline unsigned long array_index_mask_nospec(unsigned long index, BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_i) > sizeof(long)); \ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(_s) > sizeof(long)); \ \ - _i &= _mask; \ - _i; \ + (typeof(_i)) (_i & _mask); \ }) #endif /* _LINUX_NOSPEC_H */