linux/fs/afs
Arnd Bergmann 287980e49f remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses
Most users of IS_ERR_VALUE() in the kernel are wrong, as they
pass an 'int' into a function that takes an 'unsigned long'
argument. This happens to work because the type is sign-extended
on 64-bit architectures before it gets converted into an
unsigned type.

However, anything that passes an 'unsigned short' or 'unsigned int'
argument into IS_ERR_VALUE() is guaranteed to be broken, as are
8-bit integers and types that are wider than 'unsigned long'.

Andrzej Hajda has already fixed a lot of the worst abusers that
were causing actual bugs, but it would be nice to prevent any
users that are not passing 'unsigned long' arguments.

This patch changes all users of IS_ERR_VALUE() that I could find
on 32-bit ARM randconfig builds and x86 allmodconfig. For the
moment, this doesn't change the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE()
because there are probably still architecture specific users
elsewhere.

Almost all the warnings I got are for files that are better off
using 'if (err)' or 'if (err < 0)'.
The only legitimate user I could find that we get a warning for
is the (32-bit only) freescale fman driver, so I did not remove
the IS_ERR_VALUE() there but changed the type to 'unsigned long'.
For 9pfs, I just worked around one user whose calling conventions
are so obscure that I did not dare change the behavior.

I was using this definition for testing:

 #define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) ((unsigned long*)NULL == (typeof (x)*)NULL && \
       unlikely((unsigned long long)(x) >= (unsigned long long)(typeof(x))-MAX_ERRNO))

which ends up making all 16-bit or wider types work correctly with
the most plausible interpretation of what IS_ERR_VALUE() was supposed
to return according to its users, but also causes a compile-time
warning for any users that do not pass an 'unsigned long' argument.

I suggested this approach earlier this year, but back then we ended
up deciding to just fix the users that are obviously broken. After
the initial warning that caused me to get involved in the discussion
(fs/gfs2/dir.c) showed up again in the mainline kernel, Linus
asked me to send the whole thing again.

[ Updated the 9p parts as per Al Viro  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/7/363
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/27/486
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> # For nvmem part
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-27 15:26:11 -07:00
..
afs_cm.h
afs_fs.h
afs_vl.h AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment 2011-07-20 20:48:03 -04:00
afs.h afs: Support interacting with multiple user namespaces 2013-02-13 06:00:51 -08:00
cache.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
callback.c workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of cancel + queue 2012-08-13 16:27:37 -07:00
cell.c FS-Cache: Provide the ability to enable/disable cookies 2013-09-27 18:40:25 +01:00
cmservice.c AFS: Fix cache manager service handlers 2014-05-21 14:48:05 +01:00
dir.c afs: switch to ->iterate_shared() 2016-05-10 14:27:44 -04:00
file.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
flock.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
fsclient.c afs: Support interacting with multiple user namespaces 2013-02-13 06:00:51 -08:00
inode.c don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem 2015-12-08 22:41:36 -05:00
internal.h Merge commit '9f12600fe425bc28f0ccba034a77783c09c15af4' into for-linus 2014-06-12 00:28:09 -04:00
Kconfig fs/afs: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2013-01-21 14:39:04 -08:00
main.c AFS: Correctly assemble the client UUID 2014-07-29 10:14:36 -07:00
Makefile
misc.c kafs: Add more "unified AFS" error codes 2015-04-01 21:36:15 +01:00
mntpt.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
netdevices.c
proc.c convert a bunch of open-coded instances of memdup_user_nul() 2016-01-04 10:26:58 -05:00
rxrpc.c rxrpc: Differentiate local and remote abort codes in structs 2016-04-11 15:34:40 -04:00
security.c ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission() 2011-07-20 01:43:24 -04:00
server.c workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of cancel + queue 2012-08-13 16:27:37 -07:00
super.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
vlclient.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
vlocation.c sched, cleanup, treewide: Remove set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING) after schedule() 2014-09-19 12:35:17 +02:00
vnode.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
volume.c fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support 2015-01-20 14:02:58 -07:00
write.c remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses 2016-05-27 15:26:11 -07:00