On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 04:42, Douglas Anderson wrote:
>
> From code inspection the math in handle_ctrl_cmd() looks super sketchy
> because it subjects -1 from cmdptr and then does a "%
> KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT". It turns out that this code works because
> "cmdptr" is unsigned and KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT is a nice power of 2.
> Let's make this a little less sketchy.
>
> This patch should be a no-op.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson
> ---
>
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
> index 515379cbf209..6865a0f58d38 100644
> --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
> +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_main.c
> @@ -1108,7 +1108,8 @@ static int handle_ctrl_cmd(char *cmd)
> switch (*cmd) {
> case CTRL_P:
> if (cmdptr != cmd_tail)
> - cmdptr = (cmdptr-1) % KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT;
> + cmdptr = (cmdptr + KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT - 1) %
> +KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT;
> strscpy(cmd_cur, cmd_hist[cmdptr], CMD_BUFLEN);
> return 1;
> case CTRL_N:
> --
> 2.26.2.645.ge9eca65c58-goog
>
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