RE: [PATCH v1] KVM: allow KVM_BUG/KVM_BUG_ON to handle 64-bit cond

[Wang, Wei W]

On Thursday, March 2, 2023 3:47 AM, David Matlack wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 5:38 AM Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Current KVM_BUG and KVM_BUG_ON assumes that 'cond' passed from
> callers
> > is 32-bit as it casts 'cond' to the type of int. This will be wrong if 'cond'
> > provided by a caller is 64-bit, e.g. an error code of
> > 0xc0000d0300000000 will be converted to 0, which is not expected.
> > Improves the implementation by using !!(cond) in KVM_BUG and
> > KVM_BUG_ON. Compared to changing 'int' to 'int64_t', this has less LOCs.
> 
> Less LOC is nice to have, but please preserve the behavior that "cond"
> is evaluated only once by KVM_BUG() and KVM_BUG_ON(). i.e.
> KVM_BUG_ON(do_something(), kvm) should only result in a single call to
> do_something().

Good point, thanks! Using 'typeof(cond)' looks like a better choice.