Re: [PATCH][V2] rtc: tx4939: avoid unintended sign extension on a 24 bit shift

[Colin Ian King]

On 16/02/18 15:24, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 15/02/2018 at 21:44:53 +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>> On 15/02/2018 at 19:36:14 +0000, Colin King wrote:
>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> The shifting of buf[5] by 24 bits to the left will be promoted to
>>> a 32 bit signed int and then sign-extended to an unsigned long. If
>>> the top bit of buf[5] is set then all then all the upper bits sec
>>> end up as also being set because of the sign-extension. Fix this by
>>> casting buf[5] to an unsigned long before the shift.
>>>
>>
>> The timing of the discovery of this issue is suspicious. I believe it is
>> because I just enabled COMPILE_TEST on that driver and now this gets
>> compiled on a 64bit architecture.
>>
>> Can I ask on which architecture this is an issue? I don't think (and a
>> small test program confirms) x86 does the sign extension because both
>> sec and buf are unsigned.
>>
> 
> Actually, my test program was wrong and you are right.
> Kudos to CoverityScan static analysis for finding it. It's not obvious
for sure

Colin