Re: [PATCH] ata: libata-core: fix sloppy parameter type in ata_exec_internal[_sg]()

[Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>]

On 6/14/22 03:47, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> Make the 'timeout' parameter to ata_exec_internal_sg() *unsigned int* as
> msecs_to_jiffies() that it calls takes just *unsigned int* for the time in
> milliseconds. Then follow the suit with ata_exec_internal(), its only
> caller; also fix up ata_dev_set_feature(), the only ata_exec_internal()'s
> caller  that explicitly passes *unsigned long* variable for timeout...
> 
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static
> analysis tool.

Since you are changing this function signature, can you also make it
static since it is only used in libata-core.c ? The declaration in
drivers/ata/libata.h is useless.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omp.ru>
> 
> ---
> This patch is against the 'for-next' branch of Damien's 'libata.git' repo.
> 
>  drivers/ata/libata-core.c |    6 +++---
>  drivers/ata/libata.h      |    4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: libata/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> ===================================================================
> --- libata.orig/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> +++ libata/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
> @@ -1472,7 +1472,7 @@ static void ata_qc_complete_internal(str
>  unsigned ata_exec_internal_sg(struct ata_device *dev,
>  			      struct ata_taskfile *tf, const u8 *cdb,
>  			      int dma_dir, struct scatterlist *sgl,
> -			      unsigned int n_elem, unsigned long timeout)
> +			      unsigned int n_elem, unsigned int timeout)
>  {
>  	struct ata_link *link = dev->link;
>  	struct ata_port *ap = link->ap;
> @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ unsigned ata_exec_internal_sg(struct ata
>  unsigned ata_exec_internal(struct ata_device *dev,
>  			   struct ata_taskfile *tf, const u8 *cdb,
>  			   int dma_dir, void *buf, unsigned int buflen,
> -			   unsigned long timeout)
> +			   unsigned int timeout)
>  {
>  	struct scatterlist *psg = NULL, sg;
>  	unsigned int n_elem = 0;
> @@ -4339,7 +4339,7 @@ unsigned int ata_dev_set_feature(struct
>  {
>  	struct ata_taskfile tf;
>  	unsigned int err_mask;
> -	unsigned long timeout = 0;
> +	unsigned int timeout = 0;
>  
>  	/* set up set-features taskfile */
>  	ata_dev_dbg(dev, "set features - SATA features\n");
> Index: libata/drivers/ata/libata.h
> ===================================================================
> --- libata.orig/drivers/ata/libata.h
> +++ libata/drivers/ata/libata.h
> @@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ extern u64 ata_tf_read_block(const struc
>  extern unsigned ata_exec_internal(struct ata_device *dev,
>  				  struct ata_taskfile *tf, const u8 *cdb,
>  				  int dma_dir, void *buf, unsigned int buflen,
> -				  unsigned long timeout);
> +				  unsigned int timeout);
>  extern unsigned ata_exec_internal_sg(struct ata_device *dev,
>  				     struct ata_taskfile *tf, const u8 *cdb,
>  				     int dma_dir, struct scatterlist *sg,
> -				     unsigned int n_elem, unsigned long timeout);
> +				     unsigned int n_elem, unsigned int timeout);
>  extern int ata_wait_ready(struct ata_link *link, unsigned long deadline,
>  			  int (*check_ready)(struct ata_link *link));
>  extern int ata_dev_read_id(struct ata_device *dev, unsigned int *p_class,


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research