Re: endian bitshift defects [ was: staging: fusb302: don't bitshift __le16 type ]

[Frans Klaver]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Frans Klaver wrote:
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>> Hm. For some reason the great mail filtering scheme decided to push
>> this past my inbox :-/
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>> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 12:44 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 19:45 +0200, Frans Klaver wrote:
>> >> The header field in struct pd_message is declared as an __le16 type. The
>> >> data in the message is supposed to be little endian. This means we don't
>> >> have to go and shift the individual bytes into position when we're
>> >> filling the buffer, we can just copy the contents right away. As an
>> >> added benefit we don't get fishy results on big endian systems anymore.
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>> > Thanks for pointing this out.
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>> > There are several instances of this class of error.
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>> There are other smells around __(le|be) types that show up in staging
>> that might be worth checking in the rest of the kernel as well. e.g.
>> converting to cpu and storing it back into itself (possibly with its
>> bytes reversed), direct assignments without conversion and what else
>> you might have. sparse obviously already flags anything fishy going on
>> with these types, but cannot distinguish between the classes of
>> errors. I'll need to acquaint myself with spatch a bit more to be able
>> to track that down.
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> If you have concrete code examples, even fake ones, illustrating a class
> of problem, then that would be great.

I'll see if I can produce some somewhere this week.

Thanks,
Frans