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authorXi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>2013-01-11 14:31:48 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-01-11 14:54:55 -0800
commit6d92d4f6a74766cc885b18218268e0c47fbca399 (patch)
tree9feb7c205f8062ffc1982948d2ffc446cbf94a6b /README
parent7964c06d66c76507d8b6b662bffea770c29ef0ce (diff)
fs/exec.c: work around icc miscompilation
The tricky problem is this check: if (i++ >= max) icc (mis)optimizes this check as: if (++i > max) The check now becomes a no-op since max is MAX_ARG_STRINGS (0x7FFFFFFF). This is "allowed" by the C standard, assuming i++ never overflows, because signed integer overflow is undefined behavior. This optimization effectively reverts the previous commit 362e6663ef23 ("exec.c, compat.c: fix count(), compat_count() bounds checking") that tries to fix the check. This patch simply moves ++ after the check. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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