Re: [PATCH] perf tests: evsel-tp-sched: Fix bitwise operator

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Jan 23 2019 - 03:40:08 EST




On 1/23/19 2:33 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 05:34:39PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Notice that the use of the bitwise OR operator '|' always leads to
>> true in this particular case, which seems a bit suspicious due to
>> the context in which this expression is being used.
>>
>> Fix this by using bitwise AND operator '&' instead.
>>
>> This bug was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>>
>> Fixes: 6a6cd11d4e57 ("perf test: Add test for the sched tracepoint format fields")
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> nice catch
>

Glad to help. :)

> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks
--
Gustavo

> thanks,
> jirka
>
>
>> ---
>>
>> NOTE: Notice that this code has been there since 2012. So, it would
>> be helpful if someone can double-check this. Thanks.
>>
>> tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c b/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
>> index 5f8501c68da4..5cbba70bcdd0 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
>> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ static int perf_evsel__test_field(struct perf_evsel *evsel, const char *name,
>> return -1;
>> }
>>
>> - is_signed = !!(field->flags | TEP_FIELD_IS_SIGNED);
>> + is_signed = !!(field->flags & TEP_FIELD_IS_SIGNED);
>> if (should_be_signed && !is_signed) {
>> pr_debug("%s: \"%s\" signedness(%d) is wrong, should be %d\n",
>> evsel->name, name, is_signed, should_be_signed);
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>