On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:59 PM, Colin King <colin.k...@canonical.com> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
>
> 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.k...@canonical.com>> spin_unlock_irq(&pdata->lock); > - sec = (buf[5] << 24) | (buf[4] << 16) | (buf[3] << 8) | buf[2]; > + sec = ((unsigned long)buf[5] << 24) | (buf[4] << 16) | > + (buf[3] << 8) | buf[2]; Wouldn't be better to use le32_to_cpu() or get_unaligned()? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
