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userfaultfd: selftest: avoid my_bcmp false positives with powerpc
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2015 21:59:00 +0000 (14:59 -0700)
committerDhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 18:53:20 +0000 (13:53 -0500)
commit9d77b7765cfef2a46c102e66eebe0f9691a33ed2
treeaebb0ebdbdec5ab38edd9528b3c22002944ac9b6
parente985aa70c9dfa700a48b2684a0c0a868f71e3183
userfaultfd: selftest: avoid my_bcmp false positives with powerpc

Orabug: 21685254

Keep a non-zero placeholder after the count, for the my_bcmp comparison
of the page against the zeropage.  The lockless increment between 255 to
256 against a lockless my_bcmp could otherwise return false positives on
ppc32le.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1f5fee2cf232f9fac05b65f21107d2cf3c32092c)
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@oracle.com>
tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c