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    nospec: Allow index argument to have const-qualified type · ec69fa88
    Rasmus Villemoes authored
    commit b98c6a16 upstream.
    
    The last expression in a statement expression need not be a bare
    variable, quoting gcc docs
    
      The last thing in the compound statement should be an expression
      followed by a semicolon; the value of this subexpression serves as the
      value of the entire construct.
    
    and we already use that in e.g. the min/max macros which end with a
    ternary expression.
    
    This way, we can allow index to have const-qualified type, which will in
    some cases avoid the need for introducing a local copy of index of
    non-const qualified type. That, in turn, can prevent readers not
    familiar with the internals of array_index_nospec from wondering about
    the seemingly redundant extra variable, and I think that's worthwhile
    considering how confusing the whole _nospec business is.
    
    The expression _i&_mask has type unsigned long (since that is the type
    of _mask, and the BUILD_BUG_ONs guarantee that _i will get promoted to
    that), so in order not to change the type of the whole expression, add
    a cast back to typeof(_i).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151881604837.17395.10812767547837568328.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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