Re: [PATCH RFC v2 15/22] selinux: introduce ebitmap_highest_set_bit()

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Jan 07 2025 - 22:02:19 EST


On Dec 16, 2024 =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20G=C3=B6ttsche?= <cgoettsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Introduce an ebitmap function to calculate the highest set bit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.c b/security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.c
> index 43bc19e21960..5d6b5b72b3e5 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.c
> @@ -257,6 +257,33 @@ int ebitmap_contains(const struct ebitmap *e1, const struct ebitmap *e2,
> return 1;
> }
>
> +u32 ebitmap_highest_set_bit(const struct ebitmap *e)
> +{
> + const struct ebitmap_node *n;
> + unsigned long unit;
> + u32 pos = 0;
> +
> + n = e->node;
> + if (!n)
> + return 0;
> +
> + while (n->next)
> + n = n->next;
> +
> + for (unsigned int i = EBITMAP_UNIT_NUMS; i > 0; i--) {
> + unit = n->maps[i - 1];
> + if (unit == 0)
> + continue;
> +
> + pos = (i - 1) * EBITMAP_UNIT_SIZE;
> + while (unit >>= 1)
> + pos++;
> + break;
> + }
> +
> + return n->startbit + pos;
> +}

Squash this patch with 16/22. We generally don't add code that isn't
used, so squashing this with the caller in 16/22 ensures we have at
least one caller.

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