On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 12:04:52PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Passing an `unsigned long` as an `unsigned int` does no such
> narrowing: https://godbolt.org/z/TvfMxe (same vice-versa, just tail
> calls, no masking instructions).
> So if rw_copy_check_uvector() is inlined into import_iovec() (looking
> at the mainline@1028ae406999), then children calls of
> `rw_copy_check_uvector()` will be interpreting the `nr_segs` register
> unmodified, ie. garbage in the upper 32b.
FWIW,
void f(unsinged long v)
{
if (v != 1)
printf("failed\n");
}
void g(unsigned int v)
{
f(v);
}
void h(unsigned long v)
{
g(v);
}
main()
{
h(0x100000001);
}
must not produce any output on a host with 32bit int and 64bit long, regardless
of
the inlining, having functions live in different compilation units, etc.
Depending upon the calling conventions, compiler might do truncation in caller
or
in a callee, but it must be done _somewhere_.
