On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 04:45:24PM +0000, David Binderman wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I just ran the static analyser "cppcheck" over the source code of
> linux-6.2-rc1. It said:
>
> linux-6.3-rc1/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/fsl-ldb.c:101:3: style: int
> result is returned as long value. If the return value is long to avoid
> loss of information, then you have loss of information.
> [truncLongCastReturn]
>
> Source code is
>
> static unsigned long fsl_ldb_link_frequency(struct fsl_ldb *fsl_ldb, int clock)
> {
> if (fsl_ldb->lvds_dual_link)
> return clock * 3500;
> else
> return clock * 7000;
> }
>
> Depending on the range of the value of clock, maybe unsigned long
> literals, like 3500UL, should have been used ?
We could, but I don't think it will make any difference in practice as
the maximum pixel clock frequency supported by the SoC is 80MHz (per
LVDS channel). That would result in a 560MHz frequency returned by this
function, well below the 31 bits limit.
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
