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Commit cad0e390 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/lib: Fix the feature fixup tests to actually work



The code patching code has always been a bit confused about whether
it's best to use void *, unsigned int *, char *, etc. to point to
instructions. In fact in the feature fixups tests we use both unsigned
int[] and u8[] in different places.

Unfortunately the tests that use unsigned int[] calculate the size of
the code blocks using subtraction of those unsigned int pointers, and
then pass the result to memcmp(). This means we're only comparing 1/4
of the bytes we need to, because we need to multiply by
sizeof(unsigned int) to get the number of *bytes*.

The result is that the tests do all the patching and then only compare
some of the resulting code, so patching bugs that only effect that
last 3/4 of the code could slip through undetected. It turns out that
hasn't been happening, although one test had a bad expected case (see
previous commit).

Fix it for now by multiplying the size by 4 in the affected functions.

Fixes: 362e7701 ("powerpc: Add self-tests of the feature fixup code")
Epic-brown-paper-bag-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 32810d91
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