Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2021-11-19

[PATCH] mergesort: avoid left shift overflow

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From: René Scharfe <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-15 23:22:13
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Use size_t to match n when building the bitmask for checking whether a
rank is occupied, instead of the default signed int.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <redacted>
---
Ugh, sorry. :(

 mergesort.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mergesort.c b/mergesort.c
index 6216835566..bd9c6ef8ee 100644
--- a/mergesort.c
+++ b/mergesort.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ void *llist_mergesort(void *list,
 		void *next = get_next_fn(list);
 		if (next)
 			set_next_fn(list, NULL);
-		for (i = 0; n & (1 << i); i++)
+		for (i = 0; n & ((size_t)1 << i); i++)
 			list = llist_merge(ranks[i], list, get_next_fn,
 					   set_next_fn, compare_fn);
 		n++;
--
2.33.1
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