Re: [PATCH] powerpc/64s: Fix possible corruption on big endian due to pgd/pud_present()

[Michael Ellerman]

Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 08:22:12AM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 09:55:11PM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
>> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:23:39PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > > In v4.20 we changed our pgd/pud_present() to check for _PAGE_PRESENT
>> > > rather than just checking that the value is non-zero, e.g.:
>> > > 
>> > >   static inline int pgd_present(pgd_t pgd)
>> > >   {
>> > >  -       return !pgd_none(pgd);
>> > >  +       return (pgd_raw(pgd) & cpu_to_be64(_PAGE_PRESENT));
>> > >   }
>> > > 
>> > > Unfortunately this is broken on big endian, as the result of the
>> > > bitwise && is truncated to int, which is always zero because
>> 
>> (Bitwise "&" of course).
>> 
>> > Not sure why that should happen, why is the result an int? What
>> > causes the casting of pgd_t & be64 to be truncated to an int.
>> 
>> Yes, it's not obvious as written...  It's simply that the return type of
>> pgd_present is int.  So it is truncated _after_ the bitwise and.
>>
>
> Thanks, I am surprised the compiler does not complain about the truncation
> of bits. I wonder if we are missing -Wconversion

Good luck with that :)

What I should start doing is building with it enabled and then comparing
the output before and after commits to make sure we're not introducing
new cases.

cheers