[PATCH] spi: spacemit: avoid 32-bit integer overflow warning

Alex Elder elder at riscstar.com
Tue May 5 11:21:11 PDT 2026


On 5/5/26 12:57 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> Calculating the bit rate in nanoseconds does not fit into a 32-bit 'int'
> type, as gcc-16 points out:
> 
> drivers/spi/spi-spacemit-k1.c: In function 'k1_spi_set_speed':
> drivers/spi/spi-spacemit-k1.c:393:38: error: integer overflow in expression of type 'long int' results in '-589934592' [-Werror=overflow]
>    393 |         nsec_per_word = NSEC_PER_SEC * BITS_PER_BYTE * drv_data->bytes;
> 
> Cast the value to a 64-bit constant to force the longer type for the
> calculation.
> 
> Fixes: efcd8b9d1111 ("spi: spacemit: introduce SpacemiT K1 SPI controller driver")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Thanks Arnd.  I diagnosed that when I first saw the warning and my
fix was identical to yours.  I believe Mark already merged the
fix.

					-Alex

> ----
> There is probably a way to rework the algorithm to avoid both the 64-bit
> multiplication and the following division, but I kept this as a minimal
> change.
> ---
>   drivers/spi/spi-spacemit-k1.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-spacemit-k1.c b/drivers/spi/spi-spacemit-k1.c
> index 99db429db0b2..215fe66d27b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/spi-spacemit-k1.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-spacemit-k1.c
> @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ static int k1_spi_set_speed(struct k1_spi_driver_data *drv_data,
>   	 *   ticks_per_word = BITS_PER_BYTE * drv_data->bytes;
>   	 * We do the divide last for better accuracy.
>   	 */
> -	nsec_per_word = NSEC_PER_SEC * BITS_PER_BYTE * drv_data->bytes;
> +	nsec_per_word = (u64)NSEC_PER_SEC * BITS_PER_BYTE * drv_data->bytes;
>   	nsec_per_word = DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL(nsec_per_word, drv_data->rate);
>   
>   	/*




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