[PATCH] watchdog: dw_wdt: fix signedness bug in dw_wdt_top_in_seconds()

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Tue Dec 15 08:15:18 PST 2015


On 12/15/2015 06:25 AM, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> On 64bit platforms, "(1 << (16 + top)) / clk_get_rate(dw_wdt.clk)" is
> sign-extended to 64bit then converted to unsigned 64bit, finally divide
> the clk rate. If the top is the maximum TOP i.e 15, "(1 << (16 +15))"
> will be sign-extended to 0xffffffff80000000, then converted to unsigned
> 0xffffffff80000000, which is a huge number, thus the final result is
> wrong.
>
> We fix this issue by giving usigned value(1U in this case) at first.
>
> Let's assume clk rate is 25MHZ,
> Before the patch:
> dw_wdt_top_in_seconds(15) = -864612050
>
> After the patch:
> dw_wdt_top_in_seconds(15) = 85
>
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at marvell.com>

Nice catch.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>

> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
> index 6ea0634..8fefa4ad 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/dw_wdt.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static inline int dw_wdt_top_in_seconds(unsigned top)
>   	 * There are 16 possible timeout values in 0..15 where the number of
>   	 * cycles is 2 ^ (16 + i) and the watchdog counts down.
>   	 */
> -	return (1 << (16 + top)) / clk_get_rate(dw_wdt.clk);
> +	return (1U << (16 + top)) / clk_get_rate(dw_wdt.clk);
>   }
>
>   static int dw_wdt_get_top(void)
>




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