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[EXT] Re: Avoid implicit sign extension in vctrap()
On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 01:00:48AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 02:41:55PM +0200, Hans-Jörg Höxer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 10:57:28AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 02:34:20AM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 09:37:21AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 11:24:04PM +0200, Hans-J?rg H?xer wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > found by coverty: > > > > > > > > > > > > port is uint16_t. Shifting promotes to signed 32bit integer. > > > > > > When assigning to uint64_t sw_exitinfo1 the value gets sign extended. > > > > > > Thus when "port << 16" is greater than 0x7fffffff the upper bits > > > > > > of sw_exitinfo1 will be all 1. Therefore cast to uint64_t before > > > > > > shifting. > > > > > > > > > > > > ok? > > > > > > > > > > or make port uint64_t and drop the casts? > > > > > > > > We must truncate the value here. > > > > > > > > port = (uint16_t)frame->tf_rdx; > > > > > > > > In theory the (uint16_t) cast should do that. But I feel safer > > > > with a 16 bit variable for that. > > > > > > > > Or we could use an idiom without any casts. > > > > > > > > uint64_t port = frame->tf_rdx & 0xffff; > > > > > > I find that more readable. I was looking for a later use of port that > > > required it to be 16-bit. Wasn't clear it was masked with a cast. > > > > > > The 1ULL parts could just be 1. > > > > updated diff below. > > > > ok? > > > @@ -385,40 +385,40 @@ vctrap(struct trapframe *frame, int user) > > } > > case 0xe4: /* in $port,%al */ > > ghcb_sync_val(GHCB_RAX, GHCB_SZ8, &syncin); > > - port = *(rip + 1); > > + port = *(rip + 1) & 0xff; > > sw_exitinfo1 = (port << 16) | (1ULL << 4) | > > (1ULL << 0); > > frame->tf_rip += 2; > > break; > > case 0xe6: /* outb %al,$port */ > > ghcb_sync_val(GHCB_RAX, GHCB_SZ8, &syncout); > > - port = *(rip + 1); > > + port = *(rip + 1) & 0xff; > > should this and the previous case be 0xffff? in these two cases the i/o port is specified as an 1 byte immediate. We are reading it at uint8_t *rip. So the "& 0xff" is actually not need, no? I'd add it for clarity.
[EXT] Re: Avoid implicit sign extension in vctrap()