Re: [PATCH 1/4] locking/atomic/x86: Silence intentional wrapping addition

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Apr 24 2024 - 18:42:13 EST


On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 12:17:34PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:

> @@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_atomic_add_negative(int i, atomic_t *v)
>
> static __always_inline int arch_atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
> {
> - return i + xadd(&v->counter, i);
> + return wrapping_add(int, i, xadd(&v->counter, i));
> }
> #define arch_atomic_add_return arch_atomic_add_return

this is going to get old *real* quick :-/

This must be the ugliest possible way to annotate all this, and then
litter the kernel with all this... urgh.