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Message-Id: <1491343938-75336-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Tue,  4 Apr 2017 15:12:13 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	George Spelvin <linux@...encehorizons.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] bug: Improve unlikely() in data corruption check

This improves the compiler branch-hinting used in CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION(),
similar to how it is done in WARN_ON() and friends.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 include/linux/bug.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bug.h b/include/linux/bug.h
index db1e41c69bac..b6cfcb7f778f 100644
--- a/include/linux/bug.h
+++ b/include/linux/bug.h
@@ -130,15 +130,15 @@ static inline enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bug_addr,
 static inline __must_check bool check_data_corruption(bool v) { return v; }
 #define CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION(condition, fmt, ...)			 \
 	check_data_corruption(({					 \
-		bool corruption = unlikely(condition);			 \
-		if (corruption) {					 \
+		bool corruption = !!(condition);			 \
+		if (unlikely(corruption)) {				 \
 			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUG_ON_DATA_CORRUPTION)) { \
 				pr_err(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);		 \
 				BUG();					 \
 			} else						 \
 				WARN(1, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);		 \
 		}							 \
-		corruption;						 \
+		unlikely(corruption);					 \
 	}))
 
 #endif	/* _LINUX_BUG_H */
-- 
2.7.4

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