Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/gic: Fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds in GIC helpers

From: Zenghui Yu

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 05:40:03 EST


On 9/21/26 10:21 AM, Zhu Ling wrote:
> When running with UBSAN enabled, enabling a GPIO controller that uses a
> GIC interrupt as its parent triggers several shift-out-of-bounds warnings:
>
> shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c:50:21
> left shift of 2 by 30 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
>
> Similar reports are emitted from gic_poke_irq() and gic_peek_irq() in
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c. These masks are generated by shifting
> signed integer constants, which invokes undefined behavior when bit 31
> is selected.
>
> Use BIT() to generate the masks with an unsigned type and make their
> intent explicit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Ling <zhuling2709@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Use BIT() instead of explicit unsigned shifts, as suggested by Marc.
> - Drop the redundant introductory text from the email.
> - Update the author email address.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2fJDwUUYdEf2_eaRa041L9xkT8RkSWFeo7euOnqMbbPhUatLlEaAvGfB6sOspDmXaxO87Eh7bQLV9UolyjbMtZBT1wB2UGypjPOo0Z-RC0Q=@proton.me
> ---
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c | 2 +-
> drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c
> index c776f9142610..8bd1eaa54295 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-common.c
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ void gic_enable_quirks(u32 iidr, const struct gic_quirk *quirks,
> int gic_configure_irq(unsigned int irq, unsigned int type,
> void __iomem *base)
> {
> - u32 confmask = 0x2 << ((irq % 16) * 2);
> + u32 confmask = BIT(((irq % 16) * 2) + 1);
> u32 confoff = (irq / 16) * 4;
> u32 val, oldval;
> int ret = 0;
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> index 6e1fa5b247fc..15110d47ddb0 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic-v3.c
> @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static int gic_peek_irq(struct irq_data *d, u32 offset)
> u32 index, mask;
>
> offset = convert_offset_index(d, offset, &index);
> - mask = 1 << (index % 32);
> + mask = BIT(index % 32);
>
> if (gic_irq_in_rdist(d))
> base = gic_data_rdist_sgi_base();
> @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ static void gic_poke_irq(struct irq_data *d, u32 offset)
> u32 index, mask;
>
> offset = convert_offset_index(d, offset, &index);
> - mask = 1 << (index % 32);
> + mask = BIT(index % 32);
>
> if (gic_irq_in_rdist(d))
> base = gic_data_rdist_sgi_base();

gic_{poke,peek}_irq in drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c have a similar pattern.

|static void gic_poke_irq(struct irq_data *d, u32 offset)
|{
| u32 mask = 1 << (irqd_to_hwirq(d) % 32);

Mind fixing them as well?

Thanks,
Zenghui