diff mbox

[v6,6/9] bug.h: Prevent double evaulation of in BUILD_BUG_ON

Message ID 1353445507-7233-6-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable, archived
Headers show

Commit Message

Daniel Santos Nov. 20, 2012, 9:05 p.m. UTC
When calling BUILD_BUG_ON in an optimized build using gcc 4.3 and later,
the condition will be evaulated twice, possibily with side-effects.
This patch eliminates that error.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
---
 include/linux/bug.h |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Borislav Petkov Nov. 22, 2012, 1:42 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:05:04PM -0600, danielfsantos@att.net wrote:
> When calling BUILD_BUG_ON in an optimized build using gcc 4.3 and later,
> the condition will be evaulated twice, possibily with side-effects.
> This patch eliminates that error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/bug.h b/include/linux/bug.h
index 1b2465d..98bdbb3d 100644
--- a/include/linux/bug.h
+++ b/include/linux/bug.h
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@  struct pt_regs;
 extern int __build_bug_on_failed;
 #define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition)					\
 	do {							\
-		((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2*!!(condition)]));	\
-		if (condition) __build_bug_on_failed = 1;	\
+		bool __cond = !!(condition);			\
+		((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2 * __cond]));		\
+		if (__cond) __build_bug_on_failed = 1;		\
 	} while(0)
 #endif