Re: [PATCH 07/18] clk: imx: pll14xx: potential integer overflow eliminated by casting to u64

From: Francesco Dolcini
Date: Sat May 04 2024 - 08:08:57 EST


Hello Peng,

On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 08:49:00AM +0800, Peng Fan (OSS) wrote:
> From: Florin Pavelescu <florin.pavelescu@xxxxxxx>
>
> Cast to u64, so that multiplications and additions will be done
> in 64-bit arithmetic (and the results will also be 64-bit)
> and the possibility of integer overflow is eliminated.
>
> Fix Unintentional integer overflow reported by Coverity

Fixes tag if this is a fix?

It would be interesting in general if this can be trigger in real life
and with which side effects or if we are just silencing the tool