Re: [GIT PULL] SPI fixes for v5.17-rc7

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:46 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 04:25:34AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 4:13 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > One fix for type conversion issues when working out maximum
> > > scatter/gather segment sizes which caused problems for some systems
> > > which where the limits overflow due to the type conversion.
>
> > Side note: 'ctrl->max_dma_len' is a 'size_t', so even 'unsigned int'
> > isn't necessarily a sufficient type.
>
> Hrm, yes - thanks for spotting that.

I had noticed while reviewing the patch, but changing to size_t wouldn't
help much, as other related code paths treat the value as unsigned int
anyway.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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