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Commit 79e8328e authored by ndesaulniers@google.com's avatar ndesaulniers@google.com Committed by Linus Torvalds
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word-at-a-time: use the same return type for has_zero regardless of endianness

Compiling big-endian targets with Clang produces the diagnostic:

  fs/namei.c:2173:13: warning: use of bitwise '|' with boolean operands [-Wbitwise-instead-of-logical]
	} while (!(has_zero(a, &adata, &constants) | has_zero(b, &bdata, &constants)));
	          ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                               ||
  fs/namei.c:2173:13: note: cast one or both operands to int to silence this warning

It appears that when has_zero was introduced, two definitions were
produced with different signatures (in particular different return
types).

Looking at the usage in hash_name() in fs/namei.c, I suspect that
has_zero() is meant to be invoked twice per while loop iteration; using
logical-or would not update `bdata` when `a` did not have zeros.  So I
think it's preferred to always return an unsigned long rather than a
bool than update the while loop in hash_name() to use a logical-or
rather than bitwise-or.

[ Also changed powerpc version to do the same  - Linus ]

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1832
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230801-bitwise-v1-1-799bec468dc4@google.com/
Fixes: 36126f8f

 ("word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic")
Debugged-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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