[PATCH net 2/2] net: stmmac: fix multiplication overflow when reading timestamp

[Alexis Lothoré]

Hello Russell,

On Tue Apr 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM CEST, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 05:07:23PM +0200, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
>>  	ns = readl(ptpaddr + GMAC_PTP_ATNR);
>> -	ns += readl(ptpaddr + GMAC_PTP_ATSR) * NSEC_PER_SEC;
>> +	ns += (u64)(readl(ptpaddr + GMAC_PTP_ATSR)) * NSEC_PER_SEC;
>
> I'm not sure what the extra parens around readl() are actually trying to
> do. Please drop them if they're not useful.

They are indeed not specifically useful in this case, they will be dropped
in v2.

Thanks,

Alexis

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