[PATCH 08/10] mfd: atmel-smc: Silence comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false warning (W=1)

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Thu Jun 25 02:46:17 EDT 2020


GENMASK and it's callees conduct checking to ensure the passed
parameters are valid.  One of those checks is for '< 0'.  So if an
unsigned value is passed, in an invalid comparison takes place.

Judging from the current code, it looks as though 'unsigned int'
is the correct type to use, so simply cast these small values
with no chance of being false negative to signed int for
comparison/error checking purposes.

Squashes the following W=1 warnings:

 In file included from /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/bits.h:23,
 from /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/bitops.h:5,
 from /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/kernel.h:12,
 from /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/mfd/syscon/atmel-smc.h:14,
 from /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c:11:
 /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c: In function ‘atmel_smc_cs_encode_ncycles’:
 /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/bits.h:26:28: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits]
 26 | __builtin_constant_p((l) > (h)), (l) > (h), 0)))
 | ^
 /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/build_bug.h:16:62: note: in definition of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO’
 16 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
 | ^
 /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/bits.h:39:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK’
 39 | (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) + __GENMASK(h, l))
 | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c:49:25: note: in expansion of macro ‘GENMASK’
 49 | unsigned int lsbmask = GENMASK(msbpos - 1, 0);
 | ^~~~~~~
 /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/bits.h:26:40: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits]
 26 | __builtin_constant_p((l) > (h)), (l) > (h), 0)))
 | ^
 /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/build_bug.h:16:62: note: in definition of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO’
 16 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); })))
 | ^
 /home/lee/projects/linux/kernel/include/linux/bits.h:39:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK’
 39 | (GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK(h, l) + __GENMASK(h, l))
 | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at microchip.com>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com>
Cc: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches at microchip.com>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c b/drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c
index 1fa2ec950e7df..17bbe9d1fa740 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/atmel-smc.c
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ static int atmel_smc_cs_encode_ncycles(unsigned int ncycles,
 				       unsigned int msbfactor,
 				       unsigned int *encodedval)
 {
-	unsigned int lsbmask = GENMASK(msbpos - 1, 0);
-	unsigned int msbmask = GENMASK(msbwidth - 1, 0);
+	unsigned int lsbmask = GENMASK((int)msbpos - 1, 0);
+	unsigned int msbmask = GENMASK((int)msbwidth - 1, 0);
 	unsigned int msb, lsb;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-- 
2.25.1




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