Re: [PATCH] ARM: Fix find_next_zero_bit and related assembly

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Stephen Boyd wrote:

> On 11/23/2010 03:28 PM, James Jones wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 November 2010 13:26:47 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, James Jones wrote:
> >>> The find_next_bit, find_first_bit, find_next_zero_bit
> >>> and find_first_zero_bit functions were not properly
> >>> clamping to the maxbit argument at the bit level. They
> >>> were instead only checking maxbit at the byte level.
> >>> To fix this, add a compare and a conditional move
> >>> instruction to the end of the common bit-within-the-
> >>> byte code used by all the functions and be sure not to
> >>> clobber the maxbit argument before it is used.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: James Jones <jajones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Please send to RMK's patch system.
> > Thanks for the review.  It's already in the patch system, but I updated the 
> > entry to include your reviewed-by line.
> 
> Should this be sent to the stable tree too?

It could, yes.  This is hardly an urgent fix though, as the bug has been 
there virtually forever.


Nicolas
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