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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2] osdep: Fix ROUND_UP(64-bit, 32-bit)


From: Michael Tokarev
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2] osdep: Fix ROUND_UP(64-bit, 32-bit)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 23:57:47 +0300
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14.09.2017 16:49, Eric Blake wrote:
> When using bit-wise operations that exploit the power-of-two
> nature of the second argument of ROUND_UP(), we still need to
> ensure that the mask is as wide as the first argument (done
> by using a ternary to force proper arithmetic promotion).
> Unpatched, ROUND_UP(2ULL*1024*1024*1024*1024, 512U) produces 0,
> instead of the intended 2TiB, because negation of an unsigned
> 32-bit quantity followed by widening to 64-bits does not
> sign-extend the mask.
> 
> Broken since its introduction in commit 292c8e50 (v1.5.0).
> Callers that passed the same width type to both macro parameters,
> or that had other code to ensure the first parameter's maximum
> runtime value did not exceed the second parameter's width, are
> unaffected, but I did not audit to see which (if any) existing
> clients of the macro could trigger incorrect behavior (I found
> the bug while adding a new use of the macro).
> 
> While preparing the patch, checkpatch complained about poor
> spacing, so I also fixed that here and in the nearby DIV_ROUND_UP.

Applied to -trivial, thanks!

/mjt



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