Re: [PATCH 2/5] Fonts: Make font size unsigned in font_desc

Peilin Ye
2020-10-29T02:04:57Z

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:33:05PM -0400, Peilin Ye wrote:
> > It is improper to define `width` and `height` as signed in `struct
> > font_desc`. Make them unsigned. Also, change the corresponding printk()
> > format identifiers from `%d` to `%u`, in sti_select_fbfont().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
>
> I'm not entirely sure of the motivation here ... height/width should never
> ever be even close to the limit here. Or have you seen integer math that
> could potentially go wrong if we go with unsigned instead of int?

Oh... No, I have not. I just thought we shouldn't represent a length
using a signed value. Also, width and height in console_font are
unsigned int - that shouldn't matter that much though.

[3/5] doesn't hunk properly without this patch, I'll send a v2 for [3/5]
soon.

Peilin