Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 08:50:43PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On October 7, 2022 7:21:28 PM PDT, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 03:47:44PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 12:01:03PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

...

> >> These are more fun, but Coccinelle can still do them with a little
> >> Pythonic help:
> >> 
> >> // Find a potential literal
> >> @literal_mask@
> >> expression LITERAL;
> >> identifier randfunc =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
> >> position p;
> >> @@
> >> 
> >>         (randfunc()@p & (LITERAL))
> >> 
> >> // Add one to the literal.
> >> @script:python add_one@
> >> literal << literal_mask.LITERAL;
> >> RESULT;
> >> @@
> >> 
> >> if literal.startswith('0x'):
> >>         value = int(literal, 16) + 1
> >>         coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("0x%x" % (value))
> >> elif literal[0] in '123456789':
> >>         value = int(literal, 10) + 1
> >>         coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("%d" % (value))
> >> else:
> >>         print("I don't know how to handle: %s" % (literal))

Wouldn't Python take care about (known) prefixes itself?

	try:
		x = int(literal)
	except ValueError as ex:
		print(..., ex.error)

> >> // Replace the literal mask with the calculated result.
> >> @plus_one@
> >> expression literal_mask.LITERAL;
> >> position literal_mask.p;
> >> expression add_one.RESULT;
> >> identifier FUNC;
> >> @@
> >> 
> >> -       (FUNC()@p & (LITERAL))
> >> +       prandom_u32_max(RESULT)
> >
> >Oh that's pretty cool. I can do the saturation check in python, since
> >`value` holds the parsed result. Neat.
> 
> It is (at least how I have it here) just the string, so YMMV.

...

> >Thanks a bunch for the guidance.
> 
> Sure thing! I was pleased to figure out how to do the python bit.

I believe it can be optimized

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko