From: Markos Chandras

On 06/23/2014 10:44 AM, David Laight wrote:

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From: Markos Chandras

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Remove BUG_ON() if the shift immediate is >=32 to avoid
kernel crashes due to malicious user input. Since the micro-assembler
will not allow an immediate greater or equal to 32, we will use the
maximum value which is 31. This will do the correct thing on either 32-
or 64-bit cores since no 64-bit instructions are being used in JIT.

I'm not sure that bounding the shift to 31 bits 'is the correct thing'.
I'd have thought that emulating the large shift or masking the shift
to 5 bits are equally 'correct'.

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Hi David,

Since we use 32-bit registers (or rather, we ignore the top 32bits on
MIPS64), shifting >= 32 will always result to 0.
Alexei suggested [1] to allow large shifts and emulate them, so this
patch aims to do that by treating >=32 shift values as 31. Please tell
me if I got this wrong.

Shifting by 31 converts 0xffffffff to 1, not 0.

	David