Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scpi: prevent ternary sign expansion bug

[Sudeep Holla]

(dropping Tixy as I am sure it will bounce, he left/retired from Linaro
long back)

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:02:29PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> How type promotion works in ternary expressions is a bit tricky.
> The problem is that scpi_clk_get_val() returns longs, "ret" is a int
> which holds a negative error code, and le32_to_cpu() is an unsigned int.

Agreed.

> We want the negative error code to be cast to a negative long.  But
> because le32_to_cpu() is an u32 then "ret" is type promoted to u32 and
> becomes a high positive and then it is promoted to long and it is still
> a high positive value.
>

Thanks a lot for finding and fixing the bug!

> Fix this by getting rid of the ternary.
>
> Fixes: 8cb7cf56c9fe ("firmware: add support for ARM System Control and Power Interface(SCPI) protocol")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c b/drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c
> index d0dee37ad522..3bf61854121d 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scpi.c
> @@ -552,8 +552,10 @@ static unsigned long scpi_clk_get_val(u16 clk_id)
>
>  	ret = scpi_send_message(CMD_GET_CLOCK_VALUE, &le_clk_id,
>  				sizeof(le_clk_id), &rate, sizeof(rate));
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;

This could be still an issue, ideally I would prefer to pass the return
value via argument pointer and always return success/failure as return
value. Can't remember any reason for this. Since this is old interface
with limited platform to test, I think returning 0 as clock rate on error
should be fine as Cristain suggested. If you agree with that, I can
fix up when applying. 

If you don't, we can look at changing the scpi interface to clock driver
which will anyway need to do the same(i.e. send 0 in case of error)

Let me know.

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Regards,
Sudeep