hw/timer/hpet.c: Avoid signed integer overflow which results in bugs on OSX
authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:56:31 +0000 (14:56 +0000)
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:48:21 +0000 (15:48 +0000)
commitd17008bc2914d62fd0af6a8f313604ae9f9a102c
treef79db0640f17f9e3ec8fbf337e58c8d521898901
parent9d5c1dc117d1ad881bbc76f6990ee1f9e9f8ef7f
hw/timer/hpet.c: Avoid signed integer overflow which results in bugs on OSX

Signed integer overflow in C is undefined behaviour, and the compiler
is at liberty to assume it can never happen and optimize accordingly.
In particular, the subtractions in hpet_time_after() and hpet_time_after64()
were causing OSX clang to optimize the code such that it was prone to
hangs and complaints about the main loop stalling (presumably because
we were spending all our time trying to service very high frequency
HPET timer callbacks). The clang sanitizer confirms the UB:

hw/timer/hpet.c:119:26: runtime error: signed integer overflow: -2146967296 - 2147003978 cannot be represented in type 'int'

Fix this by doing the subtraction as an unsigned operation and then
converting to signed for the comparison.

Reported-by: Aaron Elkins <threcius@yahoo.com>
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1447080991-24995-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
hw/timer/hpet.c