Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix a benign Bitwise vs. Logical OR mixup

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Wed Jan 08 2020 - 05:13:57 EST


Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Use a Logical OR in __is_rsvd_bits_set() to combine the two reserved bit
> checks, which are obviously intended to be logical statements. Switching
> to a Logical OR is functionally a nop, but allows the compiler to better
> optimize the checks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 7269130ea5e2..72e845709027 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -3970,7 +3970,7 @@ __is_rsvd_bits_set(struct rsvd_bits_validate *rsvd_check, u64 pte, int level)
> {
> int bit7 = (pte >> 7) & 1, low6 = pte & 0x3f;
>
> - return (pte & rsvd_check->rsvd_bits_mask[bit7][level-1]) |
> + return (pte & rsvd_check->rsvd_bits_mask[bit7][level-1]) ||
> ((rsvd_check->bad_mt_xwr & (1ull << low6)) != 0);

Redundant parentheses detected!

> }

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Vitaly