Re: [BUG ?] MIPS: KVM: condition with no effect

2015-05-07 Thread Nicholas Mc Guire
On Tue, 05 May 2015, James Hogan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:34:38PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > 
> > Hi !
> > 
> >  Not sure if this is a bug or maybe a placeholder for
> >  something... so patch - but maybe someone that knows this code can
> >  give it a look.
> > 
> > arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c:emulation_result kvm_mips_complete_mmio_load()
> > 
> > 2414 case 2:
> > 2415 if (vcpu->mmio_needed == 2)
> > 2416 *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
> > 
> > 2417 else
> > 2418 *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
> > 2419 
> > 2420 break;
> > 
> > 
> >  either the if/else is not needed or one of the branches is wrong
> >  or it is a place-holder for somethign that did not get
> >  done - in which case a few lines explaining this would be 
> >  nice (e.g. like in arch/sh/kernel/traps_64.c line 59)
> > 
> >  line numbers refer to 4.1-rc2 
> 
> mmio_needed encodes whether the MMIO load is a signed (2) or unsigned
> (1) load. E.g. the len == 1 case just below casts the pointer to u8 vs
> int8_t to control sign extension. So it appears the else branch (line
> 2418 in your quote) should be uint16_t (or u16) to prevent the MMIO
> value loaded by a lhu (load halfword unsigned) being sign extended to
> the full width of the registers. Nice catch!
>
thanks for the clarification - will send the patch out shortly.

This was found by a trivial coccinelle scanner


virtual context
virtual org
virtual report

@cond@
position p;
statement S1;
@@

<+...
* if@p (...) S1 else S1
...+>

@script:python@
p << cond.p;
@@

print "%s:%s WARNING: condition with no effect (if branch == else)" % 
(p[0].file,p[0].line)   
  

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Re: [BUG ?] MIPS: KVM: condition with no effect

2015-05-05 Thread James Hogan
Hi,

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:34:38PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
>  Not sure if this is a bug or maybe a placeholder for
>  something... so patch - but maybe someone that knows this code can
>  give it a look.
> 
> arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c:emulation_result kvm_mips_complete_mmio_load()
> 
> 2414 case 2:
> 2415 if (vcpu->mmio_needed == 2)
> 2416 *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;  
>   
> 2417 else
> 2418 *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
> 2419 
> 2420 break;
> 
> 
>  either the if/else is not needed or one of the branches is wrong
>  or it is a place-holder for somethign that did not get
>  done - in which case a few lines explaining this would be 
>  nice (e.g. like in arch/sh/kernel/traps_64.c line 59)
> 
>  line numbers refer to 4.1-rc2 

mmio_needed encodes whether the MMIO load is a signed (2) or unsigned
(1) load. E.g. the len == 1 case just below casts the pointer to u8 vs
int8_t to control sign extension. So it appears the else branch (line
2418 in your quote) should be uint16_t (or u16) to prevent the MMIO
value loaded by a lhu (load halfword unsigned) being sign extended to
the full width of the registers. Nice catch!

Feel free to send a patch to fix. Otherwise I'm happy to do it.

Thanks!
James


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[BUG ?] MIPS: KVM: condition with no effect

2015-05-05 Thread Nicholas Mc Guire

Hi !

 Not sure if this is a bug or maybe a placeholder for
 something... so patch - but maybe someone that knows this code can
 give it a look.

arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c:emulation_result kvm_mips_complete_mmio_load()

2414 case 2:
2415 if (vcpu->mmio_needed == 2)
2416 *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
2417 else
2418 *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
2419 
2420 break;


 either the if/else is not needed or one of the branches is wrong
 or it is a place-holder for somethign that did not get
 done - in which case a few lines explaining this would be 
 nice (e.g. like in arch/sh/kernel/traps_64.c line 59)

 line numbers refer to 4.1-rc2 

thx!
hofrat
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