Re: [patch] staging: comedi: comedi_bond: silence a shift wrapping warning

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:44:34PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 2013-08-21 13:45, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:50:22AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> >>On 2013-08-21 09:27, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >>>We set this using:
> >>>
> >>>	devs_closed |= (0x1 << bdev->minor)
> >>>
> >>>Since 0x1 is an int then only the lower 32 bits are usable before we hit
> >>>a shift wrapping bug.  There are some static checkers which complain
> >>>about this.  I've silenced the warning by making devs_closed a 32 bit
> >>>number.
> >>>
> >>>32 bits should be enough for anybody.
> >>
> >>Not really, as bdev->minor will be in the range 0 to 47 inclusive (0
> >>to COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS-1).  Of course, an unsigned long is
> >>insufficient too on a 32-bit system.
> >
> >Ok.  I'll make it a u64 in a v2 patch.
> 
> If you want, we could drop that, and I could rework it to use
> DECLARE_BITMAP() and the functions in <linux/bitmap.h> to avoid
> assuming COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS is <= 64.  The devs_opened[] in
> doDevConfig() could also be replaced by a bitmap (it's currently an
> array of pointers!).
> 

Sure.  Let's drop it then.

regards,
dan carpenter

_______________________________________________
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Driver Backports]     [DMA Engine]     [Linux GPIO]     [Linux SPI]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Coverity]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Yosemite Backpacking]
  Powered by Linux