Re: [PATCH] powerpc/64s: Fix possible corruption on big endian due to pgd/pud_present()
From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Sun Feb 17 2019 - 03:26:37 EST
Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Feb 14 2019, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The fix is simple, we need to convert the result of the bitwise && to
>> an int before returning it.
>
> Alternatively, the return type could be changed to bool, so that the
> compiler does the right thing by itself.
Yes that would be preferable. All other architectures return an int so
I wasn't game to switch to bool for a fix. But I don't see why it should
matter so I'll do a patch using bool for next.
cheers