Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.5 34/52] fbdev: core: cfbcopyarea: fix sloppy typing

From: Sergey Shtylyov
Date: Mon Oct 30 2023 - 04:39:29 EST


Hello!

On 10/30/23 1:53 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:

> From: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 7f33df94cf0156f64eee9509bd9b4a178990f613 ]
>
> In cfb_copyarea(), the local variable bits_per_line is needlessly typed as
> *unsigned long* -- which is a 32-bit type on the 32-bit arches and a 64-bit
> type on the 64-bit arches; that variable's value is derived from the __u32
> typed fb_fix_screeninfo::line_length field (multiplied by 8u) and a 32-bit
> *unsigned int* type should still be enough to store the # of bits per line.
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the Svace static
> analysis tool.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbcopyarea.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbcopyarea.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbcopyarea.c
> index 6d4bfeecee350..5b80bf3dae504 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbcopyarea.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbcopyarea.c
> @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ void cfb_copyarea(struct fb_info *p, const struct fb_copyarea *area)
> {
> u32 dx = area->dx, dy = area->dy, sx = area->sx, sy = area->sy;
> u32 height = area->height, width = area->width;
> - unsigned long const bits_per_line = p->fix.line_length*8u;
> + unsigned int const bits_per_line = p->fix.line_length * 8u;
> unsigned long __iomem *base = NULL;
> int bits = BITS_PER_LONG, bytes = bits >> 3;
> unsigned dst_idx = 0, src_idx = 0, rev_copy = 0;

I highly doubt this is necessary to pull that into stable. This was
intended to be a cleanup originally.

MBR, Sergey