[PATCH] pinctrl: samsung: use 'int' for register masks in Exynos

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Sat Apr 10 01:07:26 BST 2021


On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 9:50 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com> wrote:

> The Special Function Registers on all Exynos SoC, including ARM64, are
> 32-bit wide, so entire driver uses matching functions like readl() or
> writel().  On 64-bit ARM using unsigned long for register masks:
> 1. makes little sense as immediately after bitwise operation it will be
>    cast to 32-bit value when calling writel(),
> 2. is actually error-prone because it might promote other operands to
>    64-bit.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: Unintentional integer overflow
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com>
(...)
> Please apply it directly, I don't have any patches for Samsung pinctrl
> in my tree.

OK! Patch applied!

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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