4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk> 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 <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151881604837.17395.10812767547837568328.st...@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- 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 */
