[patch] staging: comedi: comedi_bond: silence a shift wrapping warning
Ian Abbott
abbotti at mev.co.uk
Thu Aug 22 19:21:47 UTC 2013
On 2013-08-21 21:08, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:44:34PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> On 2013-08-21 13:45, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:50:22AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
>>>> On 2013-08-21 09:27, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>>>> We set this using:
>>>>>
>>>>> devs_closed |= (0x1 << bdev->minor)
>>>>>
>>>>> Since 0x1 is an int then only the lower 32 bits are usable before we hit
>>>>> a shift wrapping bug. There are some static checkers which complain
>>>>> about this. I've silenced the warning by making devs_closed a 32 bit
>>>>> number.
>>>>>
>>>>> 32 bits should be enough for anybody.
>>>>
>>>> Not really, as bdev->minor will be in the range 0 to 47 inclusive (0
>>>> to COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS-1). Of course, an unsigned long is
>>>> insufficient too on a 32-bit system.
>>>
>>> Ok. I'll make it a u64 in a v2 patch.
>>
>> If you want, we could drop that, and I could rework it to use
>> DECLARE_BITMAP() and the functions in <linux/bitmap.h> to avoid
>> assuming COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS is <= 64. The devs_opened[] in
>> doDevConfig() could also be replaced by a bitmap (it's currently an
>> array of pointers!).
>>
>
> Sure. Let's drop it then.
Okay, let's drop it. I have a series of 13 patches to apply to this
driver to tidy it up a bit and fix various bugs. I'll send them
tomorrow after a bit of testing.
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