[PATCH] linux/bitmap.h: (buildbot-only) check if we have any compile-time zero-size bitmaps

From: Rasmus Villemoes
Date: Wed Aug 15 2018 - 04:56:35 EST


Most of the inline bitmap functions are buggy if passed a compile-time
constant nbits==0. The convention is that the caller only guarantees
BITS_TO_LONGS(nbits) words can be accessed, which for nbits==0 is of
course 0. However, all the small_const_nbits() cases proceed to
dereferencing the passed src or dst pointers unconditionally.

Of course, nobody passes a literal 0 as nbits, but it could come about
from some odd CONFIG_ combination, or because the compiler is smart
enough to reduce some expression to 0, or... In any case, this patch is
just for the build-bots to chew on for various .config and arches to see
if we have any.

Since most (if not all, I'll check) of the out-of-line implementations
handle nbits==0 correctly, I'll probably just unconditionally add the
nbits>0 clause to small_const_nbits() to force the ool versions to be
used if any compile-time zero-size bitmap should turn up.

Not-really-signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/bitmap.h | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bitmap.h b/include/linux/bitmap.h
index 1ee46f492267..a5879cb45687 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitmap.h
@@ -196,8 +196,10 @@ extern int bitmap_print_to_pagebuf(bool list, char *buf,
#define BITMAP_FIRST_WORD_MASK(start) (~0UL << ((start) & (BITS_PER_LONG - 1)))
#define BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(nbits) (~0UL >> (-(nbits) & (BITS_PER_LONG - 1)))

+int const_zero_size_bitmaps_are_buggy(void);
#define small_const_nbits(nbits) \
- (__builtin_constant_p(nbits) && (nbits) <= BITS_PER_LONG)
+ (__builtin_constant_p(nbits) && (nbits) <= BITS_PER_LONG && \
+ ((nbits) > 0 || const_zero_size_bitmaps_are_buggy()))

static inline void bitmap_zero(unsigned long *dst, unsigned int nbits)
{
--
2.16.4