From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
Ayush Singh <ayush@beagleboard.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
devicetree-compiler@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree-spec@vger.kernel.org,
Hui Pu <hui.pu@gehealthcare.com>,
Ian Ray <ian.ray@gehealthcare.com>,
Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/15] dtc: Use a consistent type for basenamelen
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:14:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aY7BLVQEWLLYxWBi@zatzit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260210173349.636766-2-herve.codina@bootlin.com>
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 06:33:29PM +0100, Herve Codina wrote:
> The basenamelen member in the node structure is set in all cases to
> a positive value, the length of the basename string. Also it is used as
> parameters on function expecting a size_t type.
>
> Further more an implicit cast of strspn() returned value from size_t to
> int is needed in checks.c to avoid a signed/unsigned compilation warning
> when this value is checked.
>
> This member has no reason to be a signed integer and its obvious type is
> size_t.
>
> Be consistent and fix its type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Applied, thanks.
Reviewing the rest of the series may still take a while.
> ---
> checks.c | 2 +-
> dtc.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/checks.c b/checks.c
> index 45d0213..946c142 100644
> --- a/checks.c
> +++ b/checks.c
> @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ ERROR(node_name_chars, check_node_name_chars, NODECHARS);
> static void check_node_name_chars_strict(struct check *c, struct dt_info *dti,
> struct node *node)
> {
> - int n = strspn(node->name, c->data);
> + size_t n = strspn(node->name, c->data);
>
> if (n < node->basenamelen)
> FAIL(c, dti, node, "Character '%c' not recommended in node name",
> diff --git a/dtc.h b/dtc.h
> index 7231200..473552e 100644
> --- a/dtc.h
> +++ b/dtc.h
> @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ struct node {
> struct node *next_sibling;
>
> char *fullpath;
> - int basenamelen;
> + size_t basenamelen;
>
> cell_t phandle;
> int addr_cells, size_cells;
> --
> 2.52.0
>
>
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-10 17:33 [RFC PATCH 00/15] Add support for structured tags and v18 dtb version Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 01/15] dtc: Use a consistent type for basenamelen Herve Codina
2026-02-13 6:14 ` David Gibson [this message]
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 02/15] fdtdump: Remove dtb version check Herve Codina
2026-02-14 2:12 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 03/15] fdtdump: Return an error code on wrong tag value Herve Codina
2026-02-23 5:38 ` David Gibson
2026-02-23 8:39 ` Herve Codina
2026-02-24 5:57 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 04/15] libfdt: fdt_rw: Introduce fdt_downgrade_version() Herve Codina
2026-02-24 6:09 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 05/15] libfdt: Introduce fdt_first_node() Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 06/15] libfdt: Don't assume that a FDT_BEGIN_NODE tag is available at offset 0 Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 07/15] libfdt: fdt_check_full: Handle FDT_NOP when FDT_END is expected Herve Codina
2026-03-04 10:08 ` David Gibson
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 08/15] tests: asm: Introduce treehdr_vers macro Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 09/15] Introduce structured tag value definition Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 10/15] fdtdump: Handle unknown tags Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 11/15] flattree: " Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 12/15] libfdt: Handle unknown tags in fdt_get_next() Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 13/15] libfdt: Introduce fdt_ptr_offset_ Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 14/15] libfdt: Handle unknown tags on dtb modifications Herve Codina
2026-02-10 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 15/15] Introduce v18 dtb version Herve Codina
2026-03-12 7:54 ` [RFC PATCH 00/15] Add support for structured tags and " Herve Codina
2026-03-12 10:21 ` David Gibson
2026-03-16 16:16 ` Herve Codina
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