Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests: timens: exec: use 'labs()' over 'abs()'

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 1:45 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 9:31 AM Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > When building selftests/timens with clang, the compiler warn about the
> > > function abs() see below:
> > >
> > > exec.c:33:8: error: absolute value function 'abs' given an argument of type 'long' but has parameter of type 'int' which may cause truncation of value [-Werror,-Wabsolute-value]
> > >                         if (abs(tst.tv_sec - now.tv_sec) > 5)
> > >                             ^
> > > exec.c:33:8: note: use function 'labs' instead
> > >                         if (abs(tst.tv_sec - now.tv_sec) > 5)
> > >                             ^~~
> > >                             labs
> >
> > Careful.
> >
> > Isn't the tv_sec member of `struct timespec` a `time_t` which is 32b
> > on 32b hosts and 64b on 64b hosts? If I'm recalling that correctly,
> > then this patch results in a harmless (though unnecessary) sign
> > extension for 32b targets. That should be fine, but someone like Arnd
> > should triple check if my concern is valid or not.
>
> It could actually be 'int', 'long' or 'long long' depending on the architecture
> and C library. Maybe we need a temporary variable of type 'long long'
> to hold the difference, and pass that to llabs()?

Yeah, that SGTM. Thanks for the review!
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers