Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: ade7759: fix signed extension bug on shift of a u8

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 18:02:02 +0100
Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The current shift of st->rx[2] left shifts a u8 24 bits left,
> promotes the integer to a an int and then to a unsigned u64. If
> the top bit of st->rx[2] is set then we end up with all the upper
> bits being set to 1. Fix this by casting st->rx[2] to a u64 before
> the 24 bit left shift.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan CID#144940 ("Unintended sign extension")
> 
> Fixes: 2919fa54ef64 ("staging: iio: meter: new driver for ADE7759 devices")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to the fixes-togreg branch of iio.git.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c b/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c
> index 1691760339da..02573c517d9d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c
> @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static int ade7759_spi_read_reg_40(struct device *dev,
>  				reg_address);
>  		goto error_ret;
>  	}
> -	*val = ((u64)st->rx[1] << 32) | (st->rx[2] << 24) |
> +	*val = ((u64)st->rx[1] << 32) | ((u64)st->rx[2] << 24) |
>  		(st->rx[3] << 16) | (st->rx[4] << 8) | st->rx[5];
>  
>  error_ret: