[PATCH 3/3] assoc_array: trim the final shortcut word when skip_to_level is chunk-aligned

Michael Bommarito michael.bommarito at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 01:45:00 UTC 2026


assoc_array_walk() masks off the bits past shortcut->skip_to_level in
the final word of a shortcut before testing it, gated on
round_up(sc_level, chunk_size) > skip_to_level.  Once sc_level is
word-aligned (every word after the first) round_up() is a no-op and the
guard never fires for the word that contains skip_to_level, so its stale
high bits leak into the dissimilarity word and can steer the walk down
the wrong descendant.

Test sc_level + ASSOC_ARRAY_KEY_CHUNK_SIZE > skip_to_level directly; an
exact-multiple skip_to_level ends on the boundary and stays untrimmed.

Fixes: 3cb989501c26 ("Add a generic associative array implementation.")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito at gmail.com>
---
 lib/assoc_array.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/assoc_array.c b/lib/assoc_array.c
index bcc6e0a013eb8..1de2c337f8fcf 100644
--- a/lib/assoc_array.c
+++ b/lib/assoc_array.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ assoc_array_walk(const struct assoc_array *array,
 		sc_segments = shortcut->index_key[sc_level >> ASSOC_ARRAY_KEY_CHUNK_SHIFT];
 		dissimilarity = segments ^ sc_segments;
 
-		if (round_up(sc_level, ASSOC_ARRAY_KEY_CHUNK_SIZE) > shortcut->skip_to_level) {
+		if (sc_level + ASSOC_ARRAY_KEY_CHUNK_SIZE > shortcut->skip_to_level) {
 			/* Trim segments that are beyond the shortcut */
 			int shift = shortcut->skip_to_level & ASSOC_ARRAY_KEY_CHUNK_MASK;
 			dissimilarity &= ~(ULONG_MAX << shift);
-- 
2.53.0




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