Hello, Andrew.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 01:23:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > @@ -637,6 +637,9 @@ static struct k_itimer *__lock_timer(timer_t timer_id,
> > unsigned long *flags)
> > {
> > struct k_itimer *timr;
> >
> > + if ((int)timer_id < 0)
> > + return NULL;
> > +
> > rcu_read_lock();
> > timr = idr_find(&posix_timers_id, (int)timer_id);
> > if (timr) {
>
> This is a bit risky - if some arch defines timer_t to be a u64 then we
> will incorrectly treat 0x0000 0001 ffff ffff as a negative number.
> (That's a lot of timers!)
>
> A fancy way of avoiding this is
>
> if (timer_id & ((typeof timer_id)1 << (sizeof(timer_id) - 1)))
>
> (approximately ;))
>
> But I think casting to (long) should be good enough?
Sans WARN_ON_ONCE(), the code would behave the same as before, which
in turn, from what I can tell, is the behavior the code intended to
implement before idr_alloc() conversion.
If timer_id is being allocated from idr, a valid id can never go over
INT_MAX and returning NULL for any ID above that is the correct
behavior, I think. If timer_t is larger than int, both (int) and
(long) castings wouldn't be useful. Both will miss (1LU << 33) + 1
and idr_find() will end up looking for 1.
If we want to be strict, we would have to do, I think,
if ((unsigned long long)timer_t > INT_MAX)
hopefully with some comments. That said, if I'm grepping it right,
all archs define timer_t as int, so maybe we're just being paranoid.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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