Commit c0df075d authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Stefan Bader

branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784382

commit 2026d357 upstream.

The function __builtin_expect returns long type (see the gcc
documentation), and so do macros likely and unlikely. Unfortunatelly, when
CONFIG_PROFILE_ANNOTATED_BRANCHES is selected, the macros likely and
unlikely expand to __branch_check__ and __branch_check__ truncates the
long type to int. This unintended truncation may cause bugs in various
kernel code (we found a bug in dm-writecache because of it), so it's
better to fix __branch_check__ to return long.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LRH.2.02.1805300818140.24812@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1f0d69a9 ("tracing: profile likely and unlikely annotations")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
parent 0bffbb55
......@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
#define unlikely_notrace(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
#define __branch_check__(x, expect) ({ \
int ______r; \
long ______r; \
static struct ftrace_branch_data \
__attribute__((__aligned__(4))) \
__attribute__((section("_ftrace_annotated_branch"))) \
......
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