Re: [PATCH] kernel/power/hibernate.c: be sure of 'start' is not bigger than 'stop'

[Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>]

On 04/22/2014 04:43 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, April 21, 2014 10:09:30 PM Pavel Machek wrote:
>> On Mon 2014-04-21 21:40:27, Chen Gang wrote:
>>> For do_div(), it need 'u64' type, which means the outside must be sure
>>> of 'start' is not bigger than 'stop', or it will report warning.
>>>
>>> The related warning (with allmodconfig for unicore32):
>>>
>>>     CC      kernel/power/hibernate.o
>>>   kernel/power/hibernate.c: In function ‘swsusp_show_speed’:
>>>   kernel/power/hibernate.c:237: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
>>
>>>  {
>>> -	s64 elapsed_centisecs64;
>>> +	u64 elapsed_centisecs64;
>>>  	int centisecs;
>>>  	int k;
>>>  	int kps;
>>>  
>>>  	elapsed_centisecs64 = timeval_to_ns(stop) - timeval_to_ns(start);
>>> +	if ((s64)elapsed_centisecs64 < 0) {
>>> +		printk(KERN_ERR "PM: stop: %llu < start %llu\n",
>>> +			timeval_to_ns(stop), timeval_to_ns(start));
>>> +		return;
>>> +	}
>>>  	do_div(elapsed_centisecs64, NSEC_PER_SEC / 100);
>>>  	centisecs = elapsed_centisecs64;
>>>  	if (centisecs == 0)
>>
>> Quite a lot of code to shut up warning in mostly debugging
>> function... is there alternative method of shutting it up? Have you
>> seen < 0 values in wild?
> 
> No, I don't think so.  This is a purely theoretical problem that never
> happens in practice, because all of the callers do the right thing.
> 
> Rafael 
> 

OK, it sounds fine to me, I shall send patch v2 for it.

Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

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