Re: [PATCH] core: Catch overflows in do_div() function

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 18:45 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 09:10 -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> >> If second parameter passed to this function was 64 then it silently
> >> truncates to 32 bits. Catch such situation.
> > []
> >> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/div64.h b/include/asm-generic/div64.h
> > []
> >> @@ -25,6 +26,7 @@
> >>  # define do_div(n,base) ({                                   \
> >>       uint32_t __base = (base);                               \
> >>       uint32_t __rem;                                         \
> >> +     BUG_ON(sizeof(base) > 4 && base >= (1UL<<32));          \
> >
> > I think this would be better as a BUILD_BUG_ON
> 
> No. BUILD_BUG_ON works only for constants.

Add __builtin_constant_p(base).


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