Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: altera: Fix potential integer overflow

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Thu Feb 13 2020 - 04:10:03 EST


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:47:04AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Factor out 100 from the equation and do 32-bit arithmetic (3 * clk_mhz / 10)
> instead of 64-bit.
>
> Notice that clk_mhz is MHz, so the multiplication will never wrap 32 bits
> and there is no need for div_u64().

Was there ever? With

u32 clk_mhz = clk_get_rate(idev->i2c_clk) / 1000000;

a later multiplication with 300 should not wrap u32?

> /* SDA Hold Time, 300ns */
> - writel(div_u64(300 * clk_mhz, 1000), idev->base + ALTR_I2C_SDA_HOLD);
> + writel(3 * clk_mhz / 10, idev->base + ALTR_I2C_SDA_HOLD);

The change itself is OK, yet I wonder about the comment above:

'clk_mhz * 0.3' will not give a constant 300ns, or?

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