Re: [PATCH] spi: two bug-fixes

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 11:32:23 EST


On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:11:14PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Two SPI-related fixes: unsigned int cannot be less than zero, and the list
> search success check is wrong: for example, it didn't recognise failure for me
> when I requested port 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> It might be a good idea to get it in for 2.6.26. As a side note I was
> surprised, that the compiler didn't generate a warning for "if (t<0)" for
> unsigned t, whereas it does generate one for unsigned char with the same
> flags (-Wall). I asked on gcc, there was one reply from Segher
> Boessenkool, it is unclear if this is going to be recognised as a bug or
> not: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-06/threads.html#00044
>
> arch/arm/mach-pxa/ssp.c | 2 +-
> drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c 2008-06-04 12:11:26.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c 2008-06-04 12:11:50.000000000 +0200
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
>
> mutex_lock(&mcp->lock);
> t = mcp23s08_read_regs(mcp, 0, mcp->cache, sizeof mcp->cache);
> - if (t < 0) {
> + if ((int)t < 0) {
> seq_printf(s, " I/O ERROR %d\n", t);
> goto done;
> }
>...

The better fix of making "t" signed by Roel Kluin is already as
commit 1d1c1d9b557a12320174058d2d313ffb0f8611f4 in Linus' tree.

cu
Adrian

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