From: Michael Ellerman Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:52:44 +0000 (+1100) Subject: powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fix incorrect comparison in memord X-Git-Tag: C0P2-H0.0--20200415~6049 X-Git-Url: https://git.somdevices.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7745382fe86ce5354dc459948c086d3b5778fb9d;p=linux.git powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fix incorrect comparison in memord [ Upstream commit 05c14c03138532a3cb2aa29c2960445c8753343b ] In the hv-24x7 code there is a function memord() which tries to implement a sort function return -1, 0, 1. However one of the conditions is incorrect, such that it can never be true, because we will have already returned. I don't believe there is a bug in practice though, because the comparisons are an optimisation prior to calling memcmp(). Fix it by swapping the second comparision, so it can be true. Reported-by: David Binderman Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c index 7b2ca16b1eb4..991c6a517ddc 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.c @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static int memord(const void *d1, size_t s1, const void *d2, size_t s2) { if (s1 < s2) return 1; - if (s2 > s1) + if (s1 > s2) return -1; return memcmp(d1, d2, s1);