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

[Alexandre Belloni]

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.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1465292 ("Unintended sign extension")
> 
> Fixes: 0e1492330cd2 ("rtc: add rtc-tx4939 driver")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/rtc-tx4939.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
Applied, thanks.

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