On Mon Nov 09 2020, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The left shift of u16 variable high is promoted to the type int and
> then sign extended to a 64 bit u64 value. If the top bit of high is
> set then the upper 32 bits of the result end up being set by the
> sign extension. Fix this by explicitly casting the value in high to
> a u64 before left shifting by 16 places.
>
> Also, remove the initialisation of variable value to 0 at the start
> of each loop iteration as the value is never read and hence the
> assignment it is redundant.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Unintended sign extension")
> Fixes: e4b27ebc780f ("net: dsa: Add DSA driver for Hirschmann Hellcreek switches")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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