4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b98c6a160a057d5686a8c54c79cc6c8c94a7d0c8 upstream. 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). Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151881604837.17395.10812767547837568328.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/nospec.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/nospec.h +++ b/include/linux/nospec.h @@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ static inline unsigned long array_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 */