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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: alvaro.gamez@hazent•com, dan.carpenter@oracle•com,
	radhey.shyam.pandey@xilinx•com, michal.simek@xilinx•com,
	linux@armlinux•org.uk, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: axienet: fix a signedness bug in probe
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:14:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190925121406.GA1864@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190925.133507.2083224833639646147.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:35:07PM +0200, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Alvaro G. M" <alvaro.gamez@hazent•com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:05:43 +0200
> 
> > Hi, Dan
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 01:59:11PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >> The "lp->phy_mode" is an enum but in this context GCC treats it as an
> >> unsigned int so the error handling is never triggered.
> >> 
> >>  		lp->phy_mode = of_get_phy_mode(pdev->dev.of_node);
> >> -		if (lp->phy_mode < 0) {
> >> +		if ((int)lp->phy_mode < 0) {
> > 
> > This (almost) exact code appears in a lot of different drivers too,
> > so maybe it'd be nice to review them all and apply the same cast if needed?
> 
> Or make the thing an int if negative values are never valid 32-bit phy_mode
> values anyways.

Maybe we should change the API

int of_get_phy_mode(struct device_node *np, phy_interface_t *phy_mode);

Separate the error from the value we are getting.

	 Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-25 10:59 [PATCH net] net: axienet: fix a signedness bug in probe Dan Carpenter
2019-09-25 11:05 ` Alvaro G. M
2019-09-25 11:35   ` David Miller
2019-09-25 12:14     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-09-26 13:18   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-09-26 13:24     ` Andrew Lunn
2019-09-25 12:01 ` Radhey Shyam Pandey
2019-09-27  8:17 ` David Miller

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