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From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	David Desobry <david.desobry@formalgen.com>,
	tglx@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/lib: Fix num_digits() signed overflow for INT_MIN
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:59:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260121105928.21c5e2de@pumpkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260120201346.GEaW_h-tUO2pb4d26w@fat_crate.local>

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:13:46 +0100
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:50:41AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > For negative numbers? Dave Hansen pointed out that we currently don't ever
> > pass negative numbers, in which case it would make more sense to have the
> > function simply take an unsigned int.  
> 
> Yes, that's why I'm asking what we're even fixing here...

You can certainly just document it doesn't work for INT_MIN.

	David

  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-21 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-20  9:42 [PATCH] x86/lib: Fix num_digits() signed overflow for INT_MIN David Desobry
2026-01-20 16:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-01-20 16:40   ` Borislav Petkov
2026-01-20 18:02     ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-01-20 18:17       ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-01-20 19:16         ` Borislav Petkov
2026-01-20 19:50           ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-01-20 20:13             ` Borislav Petkov
2026-01-21 10:59               ` David Laight [this message]
     [not found]           ` <14738799-afb2-428b-9829-f1ed038f3872@formalgen.com>
2026-01-20 20:24             ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-01-20 21:22               ` Borislav Petkov
2026-01-20 21:21             ` Borislav Petkov
2026-01-20 17:48   ` David Desobry
2026-01-20 22:15     ` David Laight
2026-01-20 18:58   ` David Laight

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