From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: ops: fix signedness bug in snd_soc_put_volsw()
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:05:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220128140527.GM1978@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YfP0PGbyFVDOevIH@sirena.org.uk>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 01:48:44PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 04:31:47PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:42:04PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > This means that the helpers won't support controls that use the top bit
> > > of a 32 bit register.
>
> > Fine, I can delete the checks for negative instead (I'm surprised you
> > haven't already received a dozen bot emails about this).
>
> No, we need the checks for negatives since userspace supplies a signed
> value. The check needs to be done on the value in the input structure
> before we pull it out for mangling. I probably got bot emails but
> frankly these days almost all of them are some combination of barely
> legible and misdirected and there's plenty of people who like to fix
> these things if they're real.
>
That's a bit trickier than I initially imagined so I'm going to leave
this for smarter people than me...
regards,
dan carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: ops: fix signedness bug in snd_soc_put_volsw()
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:05:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220128140527.GM1978@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YfP0PGbyFVDOevIH@sirena.org.uk>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 01:48:44PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 04:31:47PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:42:04PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > This means that the helpers won't support controls that use the top bit
> > > of a 32 bit register.
>
> > Fine, I can delete the checks for negative instead (I'm surprised you
> > haven't already received a dozen bot emails about this).
>
> No, we need the checks for negatives since userspace supplies a signed
> value. The check needs to be done on the value in the input structure
> before we pull it out for mangling. I probably got bot emails but
> frankly these days almost all of them are some combination of barely
> legible and misdirected and there's plenty of people who like to fix
> these things if they're real.
>
That's a bit trickier than I initially imagined so I'm going to leave
this for smarter people than me...
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-28 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-28 11:20 [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: ops: fix signedness bug in snd_soc_put_volsw() Dan Carpenter
2022-01-28 11:20 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-01-28 11:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] ASoC: ops: Fix signedness bug in snd_soc_put_volsw_sx() Dan Carpenter
2022-01-28 11:20 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-01-28 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] ASoC: ops: fix signedness bug in snd_soc_put_volsw() Mark Brown
2022-01-28 12:42 ` Mark Brown
2022-01-28 13:31 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-01-28 13:31 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-01-28 13:48 ` Mark Brown
2022-01-28 13:48 ` Mark Brown
2022-01-28 14:05 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-01-28 14:05 ` Dan Carpenter
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