Re: do_div() silently truncates "base" to 32bit

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi, Joe

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 15:48 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 08/30/13 15:14, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
>> > But another question still remains: why compiler does not warn that
>> > size truncation happens? How to prevent bugs like CFQ one in the
>> > future? Should we add a compile-time assert to do_div() to prevent
>> > passing 64 numbers in "base" macro parameter?
>> That sounds like a fine idea to me.
>
> Geert thought so too and submitted a patch
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg26788.html

Thanks it works!

block/cfq-iosched.c: In function 'cfqg_prfill_avg_queue_size':
block/cfq-iosched.c:4423:3: error: size of unnamed array is negative
make[2]: *** [block/gfq-iosched.s] Error 1
make[1]: *** [block/gfq-iosched.s] Error 2



I see a number of other truncation errors. We need to fix them as well.
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