While writing the tests for copy_struct_from_user(), I used a construct
that Linus doesn't appear to be too fond of:
On 2019-10-04, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Hmm. That code is ugly, both before and after the fix.
>
> This just doesn't make sense for so many reasons:
>
> if ((ret |= test(umem_src == NULL, "kmalloc failed")))
>
> where the insanity comes from
>
> - why "|=" when you know that "ret" was zero before (and it had to
> be, for the test to make sense)
>
> - why do this as a single line anyway?
>
> - don't do the stupid "double parenthesis" to hide a warning. Make it
> use an actual comparison if you add a layer of parentheses.
So instead, use a bog-standard check that isn't nearly as ugly.
Fixes:
341115822f88 ("usercopy: Add parentheses around assignment in test_copy_struct_from_user")
Fixes:
f5a1a536fa14 ("lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191005233028.18566-1-cyphar@cyphar.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
size_t zero_end = size - zero_start;
/*
- * We conduct a series of check_nonzero_user() tests on a block of memory
- * with the following byte-pattern (trying every possible [start,end]
- * pair):
+ * We conduct a series of check_nonzero_user() tests on a block of
+ * memory with the following byte-pattern (trying every possible
+ * [start,end] pair):
*
* [ 00 ff 00 ff ... 00 00 00 00 ... ff 00 ff 00 ]
*
- * And we verify that check_nonzero_user() acts identically to memchr_inv().
+ * And we verify that check_nonzero_user() acts identically to
+ * memchr_inv().
*/
memset(kmem, 0x0, size);
size_t ksize, usize;
umem_src = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if ((ret |= test(umem_src == NULL, "kmalloc failed")))
+ ret = test(umem_src == NULL, "kmalloc failed");
+ if (ret)
goto out_free;
expected = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if ((ret |= test(expected == NULL, "kmalloc failed")))
+ ret = test(expected == NULL, "kmalloc failed");
+ if (ret)
goto out_free;
/* Fill umem with a fixed byte pattern. */