On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 12:09:34PM +0000, Vabhav Sharma (OSS) wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 9:34 PM
> > To: B K Karthik <bkkart...@pesu.pes.edu>
> > Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirisl...@kernel.org>; linux-ser...@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> > ker...@vger.kernel.org; Vabhav Sharma (OSS)
> > <vabhav.sha...@oss.nxp.com>; bhuvanchandra...@toradex.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tty: serial: fsl_lpuart.c: prevent a bad shift
> > operation
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:12:29PM +0530, B K Karthik wrote:
> > > prevent a bad shift operation by verifying that the argument to fls is
> > > non zero.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: "Vabhav Sharma (OSS)" <vabhav.sha...@oss.nxp.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: B K Karthik <bkkart...@pesu.pes.edu>
> > > ---
> > > v1 -> v2:
> > > added Reported-by tag
> > >
> > > drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c | 3 ++-
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> > > b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c index 7ca642249224..0cc64279cd2d
> > > 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/fsl_lpuart.c
> > > @@ -1168,7 +1168,8 @@ static inline int lpuart_start_rx_dma(struct
> > lpuart_port *sport)
> > > * 10ms at any baud rate.
> > > */
> > > sport->rx_dma_rng_buf_len = (DMA_RX_TIMEOUT * baud / bits /
> > 1000) * 2;
> > > - sport->rx_dma_rng_buf_len = (1 << (fls(sport->rx_dma_rng_buf_len)
> > - 1));
> > > + if (sport->rx_dma_rng_buf_len != 0)
> >
> > How can this variable become 0?
> Condition x, taking false branch
> Explicitly returning zero
>
> static __always_inline int fls(unsigned int x)
> {
> return x ? sizeof(x) * 8 - __builtin_clz(x) : 0;
> }
What false branch?
I don't see how this can ever be an issue in "the real world", can you
explain how it could ever be a problem?
thanks,
greg k-h
